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Florida  State  Board  of  Health 

Headquarters  and  General  Offices 

Jacksonville 


Hon.  Joe  L.  Earman,  President       .     .      West  Palm  Beach 

Hon.  Ed.  M.  Earnest Palatka 

Hon.  J.  E.  Graves Quincy 


Ralph  N.  Greene,  M.  D.,  State  Health  Officer 


Bureaus  Directors 

Engineering George  W.  Simons,  Jr.,  S.  B. 

Diagnostic  Laboratories      .      .  B.  L.  Arms,  M.  D. 

Vital  Statistics Stewart  G.  Thompson,  D.  P.  H. 

Auditor Samuel  F.  Flood 

Child  Welfare WiUiam  B.  Keating,  M.  D. 

Venereal  Diseases      ....  George  A.  Dame,  M.  D. 


District  Health  Officers 

A.  C.  Hamblin,  M.  D.,    .    .     .     Tampa 

F.  L.  Tatom,  M.  D.,      .     .     .      DeFuniak  Springs 

T.  A.  Blinn,  M.  D.,     .     .     .     .     Fort  Pierce 


Orthopedic  Service J.  Knox  Simpson,  M.  D. 


STATUTES  OF  FLORIDA 

Relating  to 

PUBLIC  HEALTH 

And  the  Powers  and  Duties  of  the 

STATE  BOARD  OF  HEALTH 

EXTRACTS   FROM    GENERAL   STATUTES    OF   FLORIDA, 
1920  AND   STATUTES  OF  1919 

Sections  1986,  1989,  1990,  1991,  1993,  1996,  2007,  2015,  5544,  5546, 
5547,  5549,  were  adopted  in  1889  by  a  special  session  of  the  legisla- 
ture, called  by  the  Governor  for  the  purpose  of  establishing  a 
State  Board  of  Health  and  defining  its  duties. 

STATUTES  OF  1919 

LAWS  OF  FLORIDA 

CHAPTER  7817— (No.  35). 

AN  ACT  Providing  for  the  Acceptance  and  Disbursement  of  Money 
Received  from  the  United  States  Which  Was  Appropriated  By 
An  Act  of  Congress  Entitled  "An  Act  Making  Appropriations 
for  the  Support  of  the  Army  for  the  Fiscal  Year  Ending  June 
30th,  1919,"  As  An  Allotment  Out  of  the  Sum  of  One  Million 
Dollars  Set  Apart  By  the  Said  Act  for  the  Prevention,  Control, 
and  Treatment  of  Venereal  Diseases. 

Whereas,  Under  the  provisions  of  An  Act  of  Congress  approved 
July  9th,  1918,  entitled  An  Act  making  appropriations  for  the  sup- 
port of  the  army  for  the  fiscal  year  ending  June  30th,  1919,  which 
provided  for  the  allotment  and  distribution  of  the  sum  of  One 
Million  Dollars  among  the  different  States  of  the  United  States 
according  to  the  last  preceding  United  States  census  the  sum  of 
Eight  Thousand  One  Hundred  and  Eighty-three  Dollars  and 
Eleven  Cents  was  paid  into  the  Treasury  of  the  State  of  Florida  on 
February  11th,  1919,  which  said  sum  by  the  terms  of  the  Act  is  to 
•be  used  in  the  prevention,  control  and  treatment  of  venereal  dis- 
eases, therefore. 

Be  It  Enacted  by  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Florida: 

Section  1.    That  the  State  of  Florida  accept  the  money  paid  over 


to  the  State  Treasurer  under  the  Act  of  Congress  of  July  9th,  1918, 
entitled  "An  Act  making  appropriations  for  the  support  of  the 
army  for  the  fiscal  year  ending  June  30th,  1919,"  to  be  used  and 
expended  by  the  State  Board  of  Health  in  the  prevention,  control 
and  treatment  of  venereal  diseases  in  accordance  with  the  rules  and 
regulations  prescribed  by  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  and  the 
rules  and  regulations  promulgated  or  to  be  promulgated  by  the 
Inter-departmental  Social  Hygiene  Board  for  the  expenditure  of 
the  One  Million  Dollars  civilian  quarantine  and  isolation  fund 
under  control  of  the  Secretary  of  War  and  Secretary  of  the  Navy, 
which  said  latter  rules  and  regulations  shall  be  given  consideration 
by  the  State  Board  of  Health  representatives  in  order  that  the  funds 
from  the  two  sources  may  be  correlated. 

Sec.  2.  That  all  vouchers  for  expenditures  made  under  this 
Act  shall  be  itemized  and  approved  by  the  State  Board  of  Health 
and  by  the  State  Treasurer,  and  all  expenditures  shall  be  distributed 
and  limited  in  proportion  for  the  different  purposes  as  follows : 

(a)  For  treatment  of  infected  persons  in  hospitals,  clinics  and 
other  institutions,  including  arsphenamine  and  other  drugs,  50  per 
cent  of  the  allotment. 

(b)  In  carrying  out  educational  measures,  20  per  cent. 

(c)  In  carrying  out  repressive  measures,  20  per  cent. 

(d)  In  general  administration  and  other  activities  of  venereal 
disease  control  work,  10  per  cent.  Provided,  that  the  provisional 
distribution  above  set  forth  shall  be  subject  to  modification  after 
conference  and  agreement  between  each  State  and  the  United 
States  Public  Health  Service  the  best  needs  of  the  particular  State. 

Sec.  3.  That  the  sum  of  Eight  Thousand  One  Hundred  Eighty- 
three  and  11/100  Dollars  and  such  other  money  as  may  be  paid  into 
the  State  Treasury  for  the  same  purpose  by  the  United  States  Gov- 
ernment be  and  the  same  is  hereby  appropriated  for  the  uses  and 
purposes  set  forth  in  this  Act,  and  the  Comptroller  is  authorized  to 
draw  warrants  on  the  State  Treasurer  in  payment  of  properly  ap- 
proved vouchers  for  all  expenses  incurred  relating  to  this  Act. 

Sec.  4.  That  this  Act  shall  take  effect  immediately  upon  its 
becoming  a  law. 

Approved  May  5,  1919. 


CHAPTER  7822— (No.  40). 

AN  ACT  Amending  Section  1,  of  Chapter  6895,  Laws  of  Florida, 
Acts  of  1915,  Entitled  "An  Act  Making  it  a  Misdemeanor  to 
^'Keep  or  Maintain  Surface  Closets  or  Privies  Used  for  the  Deposit 
of  Human  Excreta,  Within  Incorporated  Towns,  Which  Are 
Not  Fly-Proof  in  Construction  and  Are  Not  in  Conformity  With 
Plans  Recommended  and  Approved  by  the  State  Board  of 
Health,  and  Prescribing  a  Penalty  for  the  Violation  of  the  Pro- 
visions of  this  Act." 
Be  It  Enacted  by  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Florida: 

Section  1.  That  Section  1  of  Chapter  6895,  Laws  of  Florida, 
Acts  of  1915,  be  amended  as  follows : 

Section  1.  That  any  person,  firm  or  corporation  keeping  or 
maintaining  surface  closets  and  privies  used  for  the  deposit  of 
human  excreta  within  incorporated  limits,  unincorporated  towns, 
suburbs  and  thickly  settled  communities  which  are  not  fly-proof  in 
construction  and  are  not  in  conformity  with  plans  recommended  or 
approved  by  the  State  Board  of  Health,  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misde- 
meanor and  upon  conviction  thereof  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  not 
exceeding  ten  dollars  ($10.00). 

Sec.  2.  All  laws  or  parts  of  laws  in  conflict  with  the  provisions 
of  this  Act  are  hereby  repealed. 

Sec.  3.  This  Act  shall  take  effect  upon  its  passage  and  approval 
by  the  Governor  or  upon  its  becoming  a  law  without  such  approval. 

Approved  May  5,  1919. 

CHAPTER  7823— (No.  41). 

AN  ACT  to  Amend  Section  1122  of  the  General  Statutes  of  Florida 
Relating  to  the  Making  of  Rules  and  Regulations  by  the  State 
Board  of  Health. 

Be  It  Enacted  by  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Florida: 

Section  1.  That  Section  1122  of  the  General  Statutes  of  Florida 
be  amended  to  read  as  follows : 

Section  1122.  Board  to  Make  and  Publish  Rules. — It  shall  be 
the  duty  of  the  State  Board  of  Health  to  formulate  such  rules  and 
regulations  for  the  preservation  of  the  public  health  as,  in  their 
judgment,  they  may  deem  necessary,  and  to  meet  at  any  time  they 


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may  deem  necessary  to  formulate  such  additional  rules  and  regula- 
tions for  the  preservation  of  the  public  health,  as  their  experience 
may  suggest,  and  they  shall  have  the  same  published  in  such  place 
and  in  such  manner  as  they  may  deem  best  to  give  greatest  pub- 
licity to  the  same. 

Sec.  2.  This  Act  shall  take  effect  upon  its  passage  and  approval 
by  the  Governor. 

Approved  May  5,  1919. 

CHAPTER  7824— (No.  42). 

AN  ACT  to  Repeal  Section  1128  of  the  General  Statutes  of  Florida, 
relating  to  Assistant  State  Health  Officer. 

Be  It  Enacted  by  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Florida: 

Section  1.  That  Section  1128  of  the  General  Statutes  of  Florida, 
relating  to  xA^ssistant  State  Health  Officer  be  and  the  same  is  hereby 
repealed. 

Sec.  2.     This  Act  shall  take  effect  upon  its  passage  and  ap- 
proval by  the  Governor. 
Approved  May  7,  1919. 

CHAPTER  7825— (No.  43). 

AN  ACT  Providing  for  the  Sanitation,  Healthfulness  and  Cleanli- 
ness of  Swimming  Pools,  Public  Bath  Houses,  Swimming  and 
Bathing  Places ;  Regulating  and  Granting  and  Revocation  of 
Permits  Therefor  from  the  State  Board  of  Health,  Providing  for 
the  Inspection  of  Such  Places;  Declaring  Places  and  Things 
in  Violation  of  This  Act  to  Be  Nuisances,  Dangerous  to  Health 
and  Providing  for  the  Abatement  of  the  Same ;  Making  Viola- 
tions of  This  Act  Misdemeanors ;  and  Providing  for  the  Punish- 
ment of  the  Same. 
Be  It  Enacted  by  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Florida: 

Section  1.  The  State  Board  of  Health  shall  have  supervision 
over  the  sanitation,  healthfulness  and  cleanliness  of  swimming 
pools,  bath  houses,  public  swimming  and  bathing  places  and  all 
related  appurtenances  and  is  hereby  empowered  to  make  and  en- 
force such  rules  and  regulations  pertaining  thereto  as  it  shall 
deem  proper. 


Sec.  2.     It   shall    be   unlawful    for    any    person,    persons,    firm, 
corporation,  institution,  municipality  or  county  to  construct  or  to 
add   to   or   modify,   or   to   operate   or   to   continue  to   operate   any 
swimming  pool,  public  bath  house,  bathing  or  swimming  place,  or 
any  structure  intended  to  be  used  for  swimming  or  bathing  pur- 
poses without  an  unrevoked  permit  so  to  do  from  the  State  Board 
of  Health.    This  permit  shall  be  obtained  in  the  following  manner : 
any  person,  persons,  firm,  corporation,  institution,  municipality  or 
county  desiring  to  construct,  add  to  or  modify,  or  to  operate  and 
maintain  any  swimming  pool,  bath   house,  bathing  or  swimming 
places  or  structures  intended  to  be  used  for  swimming  or  bathing 
purposes  within  the  State  of  Florida  shall  file  application  for  per- 
mission so  to  do  with  the  State  Board  of  Health,  which  application 
shall   be   accompanied   by   detailed   maps,    drawings,   specifications 
and  descriptions  of  the  structure,  its  appurtenances  and  operation, 
description  of  the  source  or  sources  of  water  supply,  amount  and 
quality  of  water  available  and  intended   to  be  used,  method  and 
manner    of    water    purification,    treatment,    disinfection,    heating, 
regulating  and  cleaning;  measures  to  insure  personal  cleanliness  of 
bathers ;  method  and  manner  of  washing,  disinfecting,  drying  and 
storing  bathing  apparel  and  towels,  and  all  other  information  and 
statistics  that  may  be  required  by  the  State  Board  of  Health ;  where- 
upon, the  State  Board  of  Health  shall  cause  an  investigation  to  be 
made  of  the  proposed  or  existing  pool  or  public  bathing  places  and 
if  it  shall  determine  as  a  fact  that  the  same  is  or  may  reasonably  be 
expected  to  become  unclean  or  unsanitary  or   may   constitute   a 
menace  to  public  health,  it  shall  deny  the  application  for  permit; 
if  it  shall  determine  as  a  fact  that  the  same  is  or  may  reasonably  be 
expected  to  be  conducted  continuously  in  a  clean  and  sanitary  man- 
ner and  will  not  constitute  a  menace  to  public  health,  it  shall  grant 
the  application  for  permit  under  such  restrictions  as  it  shall  deem 
proper. 

Sec.  3.  For  the  purpose  of  this  Act  the  State  Board  of  Health 
or  its  inspectors  shall  at  any  and  all  reasonable  times  have  full 
power  and  authority  to,  and  shall  be  permitted  to  enter  upon  any 
and  all  parts  of  the  premises  of  such  bathing  and  swimming  places 
to  make  examination  and  investigation  to  determine  the  sanitary 
condition  of  such  places  and  whether  the  provisions  of  this  Act  or 
rules  and  regulations  of  the  State  Board  of  Health  pertaining  there- 


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to  are  being  violated.  The  State  Board  of  Health  may  from  time  to 
time  at  its  discretion  publish  the  reports  of  such  inspections  in  its 
monthly  bulletin. 

Sec.  4.  Any  permit  granted  by  the  State  Board  of  Health  as 
provided  in  this  Act  shall  be  revocable  or  subject  to  suspension  at 
any  time,  if  it  shall  determine  as  a  fact  that  the  swimming  or  bath- 
ing place  or  places  are  being  conducted  in  a  manner  unsanitary,  un- 
clean or  dangerous  to  public  health. 

Sec.  5.  Any  swimming  pool,  public  swimming  or  bathing  place 
or  places,  constructed,  operated  or  maintained  contrary  to  the  pro- 
visions of  this  Act  are  hereby  declared  to  be  public  nuisances, 
dangerous  to  health.  Such  nuisances  may  be  abated  or  enjoined 
in  an  action  brought  by  the  local  or  State  Board  of  Health. 

Sec.  6.  Any  person,  firm  or  corporation,  whether  as  principal 
or  agent,  employer  or  employee,  who  violates  any  of  the  provisions 
of  this  Act  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  each  day  that  con- 
ditions or  actions,  in  violation  of  this  Act  shall  continue,  shall  be 
deemed  to  be  a  separate  and  distinct  offense,  and  for  each  offense, 
upon  conviction,  he  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not  less  than 
twenty-five  dollars  nor  more  than  five  hundred  dollars,  or  shall  be 
imprisoned  in  the  county  jail  for  a  term  of  not  exceeding  six  months, 
or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment. 

Approved  May  29,  1919. 

CHAPTER  7826— (No.  44) 

AN  ACT  Designating  the  Headquarters  of  the  State  Board  of 
Health,  and  Fixing  the  Place  of  Residence  of  the  State  Health 
Officer. 

Be  It  Enacted  by  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Florida: 

Section  1.  The  headquarters  of  the  State  Board  of  Health  shall 
be  in  the  City  of  Jacksonville,  Florida,  and  the  State  Health  Officer 
shall  reside  in  the  City  where  the  headquarters  of  the  State  Board 
of  Health  is  located. 

Sec.  2.     This  Act  shall  take  effect  on  July  1,  1919. 
Approved  June  2,  1919. 


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CHAPTER  7827.— (No.  45) 

AN  ACT  Authorizing  the  State  Board  of  Health  to  Sell  Any  Prop- 
erty Acquired  Under  the  Provisions  of  Chapter  6894,  Laws  of 
Florida,  Acts  of  1915,  Not  Necessary  in  the  Carrying  on  of  the 
Work  of  Said  Board. 

Be  It  Enacted  by  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Florida: 

Section  1.  The  State  Board  of  Health  is  hereby  authorized  to 
sell  any  property  that  it  mky  have  acquired  under  the  provisions  of 
Chapter  6894,  Laws  of  Florida,  Acts  of  1915,  which  may  in  its  judg- 
ment be  not  necessary  to  be  used  further  in  connection  with  the 
work  of  the  State  Board  of  Health,  and  all  proceeds  derived  from 
the  sale  of  any  such  property  shall  be  transmitted  to  the  State 
Treasury  to  be  credited  to  the  State  Board  of  Health  Fund. 

Sec.  2.  This  Act  shall  take  effect  immediately  upon  its  becom- 
ing a  law. 

Approved  June  9,  1919. 

CHAPTER  7829— (No.  47) 

AN  ACT  Defining  Venereal  Diseases,  Regulating  and  Suppressing 
Such  Diseases,  Requiring  the  Separating  of  Cases  Thereof; 
Authorizing  the  Examination,  Treatment  and  Isolation  of  per- 
sons Infected  Therewith ;  Giving  Health  Authorities  Certain 
Power  Over  Jails  and  Prisons  in  Connection  Therewith; 
Authorizing  the  State  Board  of  Health  to  Promulgate  Rules  and 
Regulations  Relating  Thereto  and  Providing  a  Penalty  for  the 
Violation  of  this  Act  or  Any  Rule  or  Regulations  Passed  or 
Promulgated  by  the  State  Board  of  Health  Under  the  Authority 
of  This  Act;  Authorizing  Towns,  Cities  or  Counties  to  Make 
Donations  to  Assist  in  the  Enforcement  of  This  Act. 

Be  It  Enacted  by  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Florida: 

Section  1.  That  Syphilis,  Gonorrhea  and  Chancroid  are  hereby 
designated  as  venereal  diseases  and  are  declared  to  be  contagious 
infections,  communicable  and  dangerous  to  the  public  health.  It 
shall  be  unlawful  for  any  one  infected  with  either  of  these  diseases 
to  expose  another  to  infection. 

Sec.  2.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  female  afflicted  with  any 
venereal  disease,  who  knowing  of  such  condition,  to  have  sexual 


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intercourse  with  any  male  person,  or  for  any  male  person  afflicted 
with  any  venereal  disease,  who  knowing  of  such  condition,  to  have 
sexual  intercourse  with  any  female. 

Sec.  3.  Any  person  who  shall  violate  any  of  the  provisions  of 
Sections  one  and  two  of  this  Act,  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor 
and  on  conviction  shall  be  punished  as  for  a  misdemeanor. 

Sec.  4.  Any  person  suspected  of  being  afflicted  with  any  in- 
fectious venereal  disease  shall  be  subject  to  physical  examination 
and  inspection  by  any  representative  of  the  State  Board  of  Healtli, 
and  for  failure  or  refusal  to  allow  such  inspection  or  examination, 
they  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and  shall  be  punished  as  for  a 
misdemeanor.  Provided,  the  suspected  person  shall  not  be  appre- 
hended, inspected  or  examined  against  his  will,  except  upon  the 
sworn  testimony  of  the  person  or  persons  accusing;  and  upon  the 
presentation  of  the  warrant  duly  authorized  by  the  Justice  of  the 
Peace,  or  some  Court  Officer  charged  with  the  execution  of  this  law. 

Sec.  5.  Any  person  wilfully  violating  any  rule  or  regulation 
promulgated  by  the  State  Board  of  Health  under  the  authority  of 
this  Act,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and  may  be 
punished  as  for  a  misdemeanor. 

Sec.  6.  Any  physician  or  other  person  who  makes  a  diagnosis 
in  or  treats  a  case  of  venereal  disease,  or  any  superintendent  or 
manager  of  a  hospital,  dispensary  or  charitable  or  penal  institution 
in  which  there  is  a  case  of  venereal  disease  shall  make  a  report  of 
such  case  to  the  Health  Authorities  according  to  such  form  and 
manner  as  the  State  Board  of  Health  shall  direct. 

Sec.  7.  State,  County  and  Municipal  Health  Officers,  or  their 
authorized  deputies,  within  their  respective  jurisdictions,  are  here- 
by directed  and  empowered,  when  in  their  judgment  it  is  necessary 
to  protect  the  Public  Health,  to  make  examination  of  persons 
being,  or  suspected  of  being  infected  with  a  venereal  disease,  to 
require  persons  infected  with  a  venereal  disease  to  report  for  treat- 
ment to  a  reputable  physician  and  continue  treatment  until  cured, 
or  to  submit  to  treatment  provided  at  Public  Expense,  and  to  isolate 
persons  infected  with  a  venereal  disease.  Provided,  the  suspected 
person  shall  not  be  apprehended,  inspected  or  examined  against 
his  will,  except  upon  the  sworn  testimony  of  the  person  or  persons 
accusing;  and  upon  the  presentation  of  the  warrant  duly  authorized 


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by  the  Justice  of  the  Peace  or  some  court  officer  charged  with  the 
execution  of  this  law. 

Sec.  8.  All  persons  who  shall  be  confined  or  imprisoned  in  any- 
state,  county  or  city  prison  of  this  State,  may  be  examined  and 
treated  for  venereal  diseases  by  the  Health  Authorities  or  their 
deputies.  The  State,  County  and  Municipal  Boards  of  Health  shall 
have  authority  to  take  over  such  portions  of  any  State,  County  or 
City  Prison  as  may  be  necessary  for  a  Board  of  Health  Hospital, 
wherein  all  persons  who  shall  have  been  confined  or  imprisoned 
and  who  are  suffering  with  a  venereal  disease  at  the  time  of  the 
expiration  of  their  terms  of  imprisonment,  shall  be  isolated  and 
treated  at  public  expense  until  cured,  or,  in  lieu  of  such  isolation, 
such  person  may,  in  the  discretion  of  the  Board  of  Health,  be  re- 
quired to  report  to  a  licensed  physician  or  submit  to  treatment  at 
public  expense  as  provided  in  Section  seven  of  this  Act. 

Sec.  9.  The  State  Board  of  Health  is  hereby  empowered  and 
directed  to  make  such  rules  and  regulations  as  shall  in  its  judg- 
ment be  necessary  for  the  carrying  out  of  the  purposes  of  this  Act, 
including  rules  and  regulations  providing  for  such  labor  on  the 
part  of  the  isolated  persons  as  may  be  necessary  to  provide  in  whole 
or  in  part  for  their  subsistence  and  to  safeguard  their  general 
health,  and  such  other  rules  and  regulations  concerning  venereal 
diseases  as  it  may  from  time  to  time  deem  advisable.  All  such  rules 
and  regulations  so  made  shall  be  of  force  and  binding  upon  all 
county  and  municipal  Health  Officers  and  other  persons  affected 
by  this  Act. 

Sec.  10.  All  reports  of  cases  of  venereal  disease  shall  be  filed 
in  a  safe  or  some  place  of  safe  keeping  in  the  office  of  the  State 
Board  of  Health,  and  shall  not  be  subject  to  Public  Inspection. 
That  no  clerk  or  officer  of  the  State  Board  of  Health  shall  give  out 
any  personal  information  as  to  such  reported  cases,  except  upon 
the  demand  of  the  judge  of  a  court  empowered  to  deal  with  the 
operation  of  this  law ;  nor  shall  the  reports  of  cases  of  venereal 
disease  be  made  to  the  State  Board  of  Health,  or  any  City  or 
County  Board  of  Health,  except  in  a  sealed,  stamped  envelope, 
which  shall  be  furnished  the  physicians  of  the  State  without  cost 
to  them  by  the  State  Board  of  Health. 

Sec.   11.     Any   town,   city   or  county,   is   hereby   authorized   to 


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make  donations  to  the  State  Board  of  Health  to  assist  in  the  enforce- 
ment of  this  Act. 

Sec.  12.     This  Act  shall  become  a  law  upon  its  passage  and  ap- 
proval by  the  Governor. 
Approved  June  7,  1919. 

CHAPTER  7830— (No.  48) 

AN  ACT  Making  it  the  Duty  of  the  State  Board  of  Health  to  Make 

Certain  Analyses,  and  Providing  for  Expert  Testimony. 
Be  It  Enacted  by  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Florida: 

Section  1.  That  the  State  Board  of  Health  shall  make  or  have 
made  analysis  of  any  part  of  the  contents  of  the  human  body  sub- 
mitted to  it  by  any  regular  practicing  physician  licensed  to  practice 
in  this  State,  or  any  State  Attorney  or  Solicitor  of  any  Criminal 
Court  or  Court  of  Record,  or  Sheriff  in  this  State,  for  the  purpose 
of  determining  whether  or  not  it  contains  any  foreign  matter  or 
drugs  poisonous  to  the  human  system,  and  upon  the  completion  of 
such  analysis  furnished  to  the  person  submitting  the  same,  a  certifi- 
cate under  oath  of  the  result  of  such  analysis. 

Sec.  2.  The  State  Board  of  Health  shall  make  or  have  made 
analysis  of  any  part  of  the  contents  of  the  carcass  of  any  domestic 
animal  submitted  to  it  by  any  duly  authorized  agent  of  the  Live 
Stock  Sanitary  Board,  or  County  Demonstration  Agent,  or  Sheriff, 
for  the  purpose  of  determining  whether  or  not  it  contains  any 
foreign  matter  or  drugs  poisonous  to  the  life  of  such  animal,  and 
upon  the  completion  of  such  analysis  the  said  Board  shall  furnish 
to  the  person  submitting  same  a  certificate  under  oath  giving  the 
result  of  such  analysis ;  provided  that  in  all  such  cases  when  the 
agent  of  the  Live  Stock  Sanitary  Board,  County  Demonstration 
Agent  or  Agent  submits  any  specimen  to  the  State  Board  of  Health 
for  analysis'  he  shall  at  the  same  time  forward  to  the  Secretary  of 
the  Board  a  fee  of  Five  Dollars  to  be  applied  to  the  expense  incident 
to  such  analysis,  and  the  said  fee  shall  become  a  part  of  the  State 
Board  of  Health  Funds  and  forwarded  to  the  State  Treasurer. 

Sec.  3.  Any  person  who  is  required  under  process  of  court  to 
give  expert  testimony  under  either  Section  1  or  2  of  this  Act  shall 
be  paid  all  expenses  going  to  and  from  the  place  where  such  testi- 
mony is  to  be  given. 


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Sec.  4.  This  Act  shall  take  effect  immediately  upon  its  becom- 
ing a  law. 

Approved  June  9,  1919. 

CHAPTER  7920— (Xo.  138) 

AN  ACT  to  Provide  for  the  Assistance  of  Poor  Mothers  or  Other 
Poor  Women  Having  Children  Dependent  Upon  Them  for  Sup- 
port and  Care  Under  the  Age  of  Sixteen  Years  and  to  Provide 
the  Necessary  Means  of  Carrying  This  Law  Into  Effect. 
Whereas,  Section  3  of  Article  XHI  of  the  Constitution  of  this 
State  ordains  that  "the  respective  counties  of  the  State  shall  pro- 
vide in  the  manner  prescribed  by  law  for  those  of  the  inhabitants 
that  by  reason  of  age,  infirmity  or  misfortune  may  have  claims  upon 
the  aid  and  sympathy  of  society;"  and 

Whereas,  It  has  been  found  by  those  engaged  in  social  welfare 
work  among  the  poorer  people  of  the  State  that  there  are  numbers 
of  Mothers  and  other  women  who  have  children  depending  solely 
upon  them  for  food,  clothing  and  education,  and  in  many  instances 
deprived  almost  wholly  of  all  of  these  necessities ;  and 

Whereas,  It  has  been  demonstrated  that  a  Republic  is  as  strong 
as  its  citizenship,  and  the  citizen  is  useful  accordingly  as  to  his 
intellect  and  environments  and  training;  therefore 
Be  It  Enacted  by  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Florida: 

Section  1.  General  Duties  of  Officers. — The  County  Commis- 
sioners of  the  several  Counties  of  the  State  of  Florida  are  em- 
powered and  authorized  to  provide  in  the  annual  budget  of  the  Gen- 
eral Revenue  Fund  an  appropriation  sufficient  to  meet  the  purposes 
of  this  Law  for  the  support  of  women  who  have  dependent  upon 
them  for  food,  raiment  and  education  an  orphan  or  orphans  or  half 
orphan  children  under  sixteen  years  of  age,  including  any  woman 
whose  husband  is  dead  or  an  inmate  of  some  State  Institution,  or 
whose  husband  has  been  prosecuted  for  desertion  or  non-support 
and  has  been  adjudicated  by  the  Court  when  prosecuted  to  be 
wholly  unable  to  support  his  wife  and  children ;  whose  support 
and  the  support  of  the  children  depend  wholly  or  partially  upon  her 
labor,  shall  be  entitled  to  the  assistance  as  provided  for  in  this  Act, 
for  the  support  of  herself  and  for  her  children. 

Sec.  2.     Allowance  Authorized. — The  allowance  for  the  aid  of 


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such  women  shall  not  exceed  twenty-five  dollars  a  month 
when  she  has  but  one  child  under  sixteen  years  of  age.  If 
she  has  more  than  one  child  under  the  age  of  sixteen  years  it  shall 
not  exceed  twenty-five  dollars  for  the  first  child,  and  eight  dollars 
a  month  for  each  of  the  other  children. 

Sec.  3.  Condition  of  Allowance. — That  the  County  Commis- 
sioners of  their  respective  counties  shall  levy  a  Tax  of  not  more,  than 
Yi  of  one  mill  on  all  taxable  property  of  their  respective  Counties 
for  the  purpose  of  supplying  funds  to  carry  this  Bill  into  effect,  and 
provide  means  for  the  same,  provided  the  condition  of  allowance 
of  said  allotment  shall  be  made  by  the  County  Commissioners  upon 
the  recommendation  of  the  School  Board  in  the  County  in  which 
such  Mothers  reside,  and  only  upon  the  following  conditions : 

First.  The  child  or  children  for  whose  benefit  the  allowance  is 
made,  must  be  living  with  the  mother  of  such  child  or  children. 

Second.  The  Mother  must  in  the  judgment  of  the  County  Com- 
missioners of  such  County,  which  body  shall  finally  pass  upon  all 
applications  for  aid  under  this  Act,  be  a  proper  person  morally, 
physically  and  mentally  for  the  bringing  up  of  her  children. 

Third.  Said  allowance  shall,  in  the  judgment  of  the  County 
Commissioners,  be  necessary  to  save  the  child  or  children  from 
neglect. 

Fourth.  No  person  shall  receive  the  benefit  of  this  Act  who 
shall  not  have  been  a  resident  of  the  State  for  at  least  four  years 
and  a  resident  of  the  County  in  which  the  allowance  is  given,  for 
at  least  one  year  next  before  the  making  of  the  application  for  aid 
in  such  County. 

Sec.  4.  When  Allowances  Shall  Cease. — Whenever  any  child 
shall  reach  the  age  of  sixteen  years,  or  the  mother  shall  remarry 
the  allowance  to  the  mother  or  the  children  shall  cease :  Provided, 
however,  that  if  it  is  made  to  appear  to  the  Board  of  County  Com- 
missioners, after  an  investigation  and  recommendation  by  the 
County  School  Board,  that  there  exists  some  special  reason  that  it 
is  for  the  best  interest  of  any  child,  as  well  as  for  society,  to  con- 
tinue said  allowance  for  a  longer  period  of  time  such  allowance 
may  be  continued  for  such  time  as  the  justice  of  the  case  may  de- 
mand. In  all  cases,  however,  when  the  mother  remarries  all 
allowances  shall  cease. 


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Sec.  5.  Female  Relative. — The  provisions  of  this  Act  shall 
also  be  extended  for  the  benefit  of  orphan  children  who  are  depend- 
ent on  some  female  relative  unable  to  support  them,  or  to  any  such 
child  or  children  under  guardianship  who  are  dependents  or  paupers 
and  have  no  means  of  support. 

Sec.  6.  How  Carried  Into  Effect. — In  order  to  carry  the  pro- 
visions of  this  Act  into  effect,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  County 
School  Attendance  Officer,  or  like  officer  by  whatever  name  called, 
to  have  direct  supervision  of  the  investigation  of  all  cases,  and  he 
shall  have  the  assistance  of  the  Bureau  of  Education  and  Child 
Welfare  of  the  State  Board  of  Health  to  cooperate  with  the  Board 
of  Public  Instruction  or  social  workers  of  each  county  in  the  State 
in  investigating  all  persons  entitled  to  the  provisions  of  this  Act  in 
the  gathering  of  data  and  the  history,  and  making  a  report  on  each 
case,  and  to  this  end  the  necessary  blanks  will  be  provided,  and  it 
shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Board  of  Child  Welfare  and  Education  of 
the  State  Board  of  Health  to  provide  uniform  blanks  to  be  printed 
and  paid  for  by  the  counties  to  be  used  in  gathering  and  recording 
the  history  of  each  case. 

Sec.  7.  History  of  Each  Case. — The  history  of  each  case  when 
investigated  by  the  Board  of  Public  Instruction,  School  Attend- 
ance Officer,  or  the  nurse  or  social  worker  of  the  county,  or  a  com- 
mittee hereinafter  provided  to  be  appointed,  shall  be  made  up  in 
triplicate,  the  original  to  be  filed  with  the  Board  of  County  Com- 
missioners of  the  county,  which  shall  include  the  recommendation 
of  the  Board  of  Public  Instruction  of  the  county,  and  one  copy  shall 
be  retained  by  the  Board  of  Public  Instruction,  and  one  copy  for- 
warded to  and  filed  with  the  Bureau  of  Child  Welfare  and  Educa- 
tion of  the  State  Board  of  Health. 

Sec.  8.  How  Families  Are  to  be  Investigated. — It  shall  be  the 
duty  of  the  Board  of  Public  Instruction  of  each  county  to  require 
each  nurse  or  social  worker  employed  by  said  County  Board  of 
Public  Instruction  or  School  Attendance  Officer  to  carefully  and 
speedily  investigate  the  condition  of  any  and  all  poor  mothers' 
children,  orphan  and  half  orphan  children,  whose  needs  may  be 
brought  to  their  attention,  and  after  having  gathered  the  history 
of  eacTi  case  and  recorded  such  history  upon  the  blanks  as  herein- 
before required  to  be  provided,  to  immediately  place  such  report 
of  such  case  before  the  Board  of  Public  Instruction  of  such  county 


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for  its  immediate  action,  and  said  Board  of  Public  Instruction  shall 
examine  such  report  and  immediately  transmit  such  application 
together  with  its  recommendations  to  the  Board  of  County  Com- 
missioners of  the  county  for  final  action.  The  Board  of  County 
Commissioners  shall  immediately  take  up  such  application  and 
grant  or  reject  such  application  as  that  Board  in  its  judgment  shall 
find  the  applicant  entitled  in  this  Act. 

Sec.  9.  Other  Persons  May  be  Appointed  to  Carry  Law  Into 
Effect. — In  absence  of  a  social  worker  or  nurse,  as  provided  for  in 
Section  8,  in  any  county  of  the  State,  it  shall  become  the  duty  of 
the  Board  of  Public  Instruction,  upon  this  Act  becoming  a  law,  to 
immediately  recommend  for  appointment  three  capable  women, 
residents  of  such  county,  who  will  be  willing  to  accept  such  ap- 
pointment and  serve  without  compensation,  to  investigate  and 
report  the  cases  of  poor  mothers,  orphans  and  half  orphan  children 
entitled  to  the  provisions  of  this  Act,  and  who  shall  serve  until  a 
nurse  or  social  worker  or  School  Attendance  Officer  is  employed, 
and  such  persons  so  appointed  shall  individually  or  collectively  make 
their  investigation  of  poor  mothers,  orphans  and  half  orphans  in 
the  same  manner  as  nurses  and  social  workers  as  is  provided  for 
in  Section  8  of  this  Act. 

Sec.  10.  Where  Child  May  Reside.— The  child  or  children  to 
whom  the  allowance  is  made  under  this  Act  must  be  living  with 
the  mother,  or  other  female  guardian  of  such  child  or  children  unless 
special  privilege  of  separation  is  authorized  by  the  Board  of 
County  Commissioners,  upon  the  recommendation  of  the  Board  of 
Public  Instruction  for  the  sake  of  the  child's  education. 

Sec.  11.  Construed  Liberally.— The  provisions  of  this  Act  shall 
be  construed  liberally  to  the  ends  that  the  best  interest  of  all  de- 
pendent children  shall  be  conserved. 

Sec.  12.  Require  Attendance  at  School. — All  children  receiving 
aid  under  the  provisions  of  this  Act  shall  be  required  to  attend  the 
schools  of  the  County  during  the  whole  term  or  terms  of  such 
schools,  and  upon  failure  of  such  children  to  attend  schools  for  the 
whole  term  or  terms  thereof,  the  aid  herein  provided  for  such 
mothers  and  child  or  children  shall  cease  without  notice. 

Sec.  13.  Penalty  for  Fraud. — Any  person  procuring  an  allow- 
ance under  the  provisions  of  this  Act  for  a  person  or  persons  not 


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entitled  thereto  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and  on  conviction 
shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not  more  than  One  Hundred  Dollars 
($100.00)  or  by  imprisonment  for  a  period  of  not  more  than  six 
months  or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment  at  the  discretion  of 
the  trial  Judge. 

Sec.  14.  All  laws  or  parts  of  laws  in  conflict  with  the  provisions 
of  this  Act  are  hereby  repealed. 

Sec.  15.  This  Law  shall  become  efifective  upon  its  becoming  a 
law. 

Approved  May  31,  1919. 


GENERAL  STATUTES-1920 

FROM  CONSTITUTION  OF  THE  STATE  OF  FLORIDA 

1885 

CHAPTER  XV. 
PUBLIC  HEALTH 

Section  L  The  legislature  shall  establish  a  State  Board  of 
Health  and  also  county  boards  of  health  in  alt  counties  where  it 
may  be  necessary. 

Sec.  2.  The  State  Board  of  Health  shall  have  supervision  of 
all  matters  relating-  to  public  health,  with  such  duties,  powers,  and 
responsibilities  as  may  be  prescribed  by  law. 

Sec.  2  of  article  15  of  the  Constitution  of  1885,  conferring  "supervision"  of  matters  of 
public  health  upon  the  State  board,  subject  to  legislative  control,  has  no  application  when  it 
is  shown  the  board  declines  to  interfere  with  a  municipal  ordinance.  Logan  v.  Childs,  51 
Fla.  233,  41  So.  197. 

Sec.  3.  The  county  boards  of  health  shall  have  such  powers 
and  be  under  the  supervision  of  the  State  Board  to  such  extent  as 
the  legislature  may  prescribe. 

Acts^i9i5  ^^^'     S^^'^ool  closets;  separate  compartments  for  each 

Sec.  1.          sex. — That    all    school    buildings,    public    or    private,    in 
this  State  shall  be  provided  with  adequate  facilities  for 
nature's  conveniences,  by  either  water  carriage  or  sur- 
face closets,  with  separate  compartments  for  each  sex. 
lb   Sec  2  ^^^-     School  closets  in  rural  districts. — That  in  rural 

districts  where  sewerage  systems  do  not  exist,  all  sur- 
face closets  used  in  connection  with  such  schools  shall 
be  of  fly-proof  construction  and  in  conformity  with  plans 
recommended  or  approved  by  the  State  Board  of  Health, 
with  separate  compartments  for  each  sex. 

(Penalty  for  failure  to  provide  school  buildings  vi^ith  closets,  see  Sec.  5872). 

Ch.  7336,  1817.     Tuberculosis  hospitals:  how  established;  elec- 

Acts  1917,  '^  ' 

Sec.  1.  tion;  notice;  places  of  election;  form  of  ballot. — When- 
ever a  petition  signed  by  not  less  than  twenty-five  per 
cent  of  the  qualified  voters  of  any  county  shall  be  pre- 
sented to  the  county  commissioners  of  such  county,  ask- 
ing that  a  tax  be  levied  annually  for  the  establishment 
and  maintenance  of  a  county  tuberculosis  hospital  in 
such  county,  said  county  commissioners  shall  order  that 


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an  election  shall  be  held  to  determine  whether  such  tax 
shall  be  levied.  The  county  commissioners  shall  appoint 
a  day  for  the  holding  of  said  election  and  shall  publish 
notice  of  such  election  in  a  newspaper  published  in  said 
county  once  a  week  for  four  consecutive  weeks  prior  to 
the  date  of  such  election.  Such  election  shall  be  held  at 
the  several  places  where  the  last  general  election  was 
held  in  said  county,  unless  the  county  commissioners 
shall  otherwise  order.  The  form  of  the  ballot  for  such 
election  shall  be  "For  the  Levy  of  a  Tax  for  County 
Tuberculosis  Hospital,"  or  "Against  the  Levy  of  a  Tax 
for  County  Tuberculosis  Hospital,"  and  at  such  election 
every  qualified  elector  may  vote. 

1818.  Conduct  of  election  and  canvass  of  votes;  if 
election  afBrmative  county  to  levy  tax;  amount  of  tax; 
requisition  and  budget. — Such  elections  shall  be  con- 
ducted and  the  canvass  of  the  votes  certified  to  and  re- 
turned and  the  returns  canvassed  in  the  manner  and 
within  the  time  prescribed  for  general  elections,  except 
as  otherwise  provided  herein,  and  except  that  the  returns 
shall  be  delivered  to  the  chairman  and  clerk  of  the  board 
of  county  commissioners  who  shall  canvass  the  returns 
and  declare  the  result  and  cause  the  same  to  be  recorded 
in  their  minutes.  If  the  majority  of  votes  cast  at  such  elec- 
tion shall  be  for  the  levy  of  a  tax  for  a  county  tuberculosis 
hospital,  the  board  of  county  commissioners  shall  be 
authorized  and  required  to  levy  annually  such  tax  upon 
the  taxable  property  within  the  limits  of  said  county,  not 
to  exceed  two  mills  on  the  dollar,  as  may  be  necessary 
to  pay  the  liabilities  and  necessary  expenses  of  said 
county  tuberculosis  hospital,  except  that  in  counties 
having  an  assessed  valuation  of  twenty  million  dollars 
or  over  such  tax  shall  not  exceed  one  mill  on  the  dollar, 
the  amount  to  be  raised  by  such  levy  to  be  fixed  by  requi- 
sition of  the  board  of  tuberculosis  commissioners  here- 
inafter provided  for.  Said  tax  shall  be  collected  in  the 
same  manner  as  other  taxes.  The  requisition  herein  re- 
quired shall  be  in  writing  and  shall  be  accompanied  by  a 
budget  in  which  shall  be  set  forth  clearly  on  a  form  to  be 


lb. 


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prescribed  by  the  State  Comptroller  the  several  items 
of  expenditure  to  be  made  during  the  ensuing  year  and 
the  amounts  to  be  employed  for  each  purpose. 

lb.,  Sec.  2.  1819.     Tuberculosis      commissioners;      appointment; 

term  of  office;  vacancies;  no  compensation;  expenses. — 

When  in  any  county  a  levy  for  a  tax  for  a  county  tubercu- 
losis hospital  has  been  authorized,  the  Governor  shall 
proceed  to  appoint  a  board  of  three  tuberculosis  com- 
missioners upon  the  recommendation  of  the  local  medical 
society  or  assocition,  one  at  least  of  said  tuberculosis 
.  commissioners  shall  be  a  physician,  all  residents  of  the 
county.  Said  commissioners  shall  hold  office  for  four 
years.  Vacancies  on  the  board  of  tuberculosis  commis- 
sioners shall  be  filled  in  like  manner  as  original  appoint- 
ments. Said  commissioners  shall  serve  without  compen- 
.  sation,  but  shall  be  allowed  out  of  the  funds  created  by 

this  chapter  all  necessary  expenses  incurred  by  them  in 
the  performance  of  their  official  duties. 

lb..  Sec.  3.  1820.     Organization      of     commissioners;      by-laws; 

regulations  for  government  of  hospitals;  receive  and  pay 
out  moneys;  bond. — The  said  tuberculosis  commission- 
ers shall  annually  elect  their  own  chairman  and  secre- 
tary. They  shall  make  and  adopt  such  by-laws,  rules 
and  regulations  for  their  own  guidance  and  for  the  gov- 
ernment of  the  hospitals  and  the  activities  connected 
therewith  as  may  be  expedient.  They  shall  control  and 
pay  out  all  moneys  collected  or  received  for  the  credit 
of  the  tuberculosis  hospital  and  of  the  construction  of 
any  hospital  building,  and  shall  supervise,  inspect  and 
care  for  the  grounds  and  buildings  constructed  or  set 
apart  for  that  purpose,  and  shall  appoint  all  officers  and 
employees  of  said  hospital  and  fix  their  compensation. 

All  moneys  collected  under  this  tax  shall  be  deposited 
to  the  credit  of  the  board  of  tuberculosis  commissioners 
and  shall  be  withdrawn  and  paid  out  by  said  board  of 
tuberculosis  commissioners  in  like  manner  as  provided 
by  law  for  the  deposit  and  withdrawal  of  county  funds  by 
the    board    of    county    commissioners.      Each    of    said 


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tuberculosis  commissioners  shall  give  bond  in  the  sum  of 
five  thousand  dollars  with  good  and  sufficient  sureties, 
conditioned  for  the  faithful  performance  of  his  duties  to 
the  Governor  of  the  State  of  Florida,  and  his  successors 
in  office,  such  bond  to  be  approved  by  the  board  of^ 
county  commissioners. 

1821.  Powers    and    duties    of    commissioners. — The  ib.,  Sec.  4. 
board  of  tuberculosis  commissioners  shall  have  the  power 

to  purchase  or  lease  lands  within  the  limits  of  such 
county  for  the  location  of  such  hospital,  and  to  lease  or 
erect  appropriate  buildings  for  the  use  of  said  tuberculosis 
hospital :  Provided,  however.  That  no  such  tuberculosis 
hospital  shall  be  built  on  the  grounds  of  a  county  insti- 
tution for  the  care  of  paupers.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  said 
board  to  submit  the  proposed  sites  and  buildings  to  the 
State  Health  officer  and  request  his  advice  and  recom- 
mendation thereon. 

1822.  Hospital  used  for  benefit  of  inhabitants  of  ib.,  Sec  s. 
county  suffering  from  tuberculosis ;  patients ;  indigent 
patients ;  other  powers  of  commissioners. — Every  hospital 
established  under  this  chapter  shall  be  for  the  use  and 
benefit  of  the  inhabitants  of  such  county  suffering  from 
tuberculosis  who  shall  have  resided  in  such  county  con- 
tinuously for  not  less  than  one  year  next  preceding  ap- 
plication   for    admission    or    treatment.      Such    residents 

shall  be  admitted  to  said  hospital  and  be  entitled  to  oc- 
cupancy, nursing,  care,  medicine  and  attendance,  subject 
to  the  rules  and  regulations  prescribed  by  said  board  of 
tuberculosis  commissioners.  Said  tuberculosis  hospital 
shall  care  for  and  treat  without  charge  indigent  patients, 
but  may  collect  from  patients  financially  able  such  charges 
as  the  tuberculosis  commissioners  may  from  time  to 
time  establish.  Said  board  of  tuberculosis  commission- 
ers shall  have  the  power  to  extend  the  benefits  and  privi- 
leges of  such  hospital  and  treatment  to  the  homes  of 
persons  suffering  from  tuberculosis  and  to  furnish  nurses, 
instruction,  medicines  and  attendance  and  all  other  things 
necessary  to  effect  a  cure  and  to  stamp  out  tuberculosis 


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in  such  county.  Said  board  of  tuberculosis  commis- 
sioners may  extend  the  privileges  and  use  of  the  hospitals 
to  persons  afiflicted  with  tuberculosis,  who  are  non-resi- 
dents of  such  county,  upon  such  terms  and  conditions 
as  said  tuberculosis  commissioners  may  from  time  to 
time  by  its  rules  and  regulations  prescribe. 

lb.,  Sec.  6.  1823.     Annual  reports  to  Governor  and  State  Board 

of  Health. — The  board  of  tuberculosis  commissioners 
shall  make  to  the  Governor  and  to  the  State  Board  of 
Health  an  annual  report  showing  the  number  of  patients, 
the  condition  of  the  tuberculosis  hosiptal,  the  various 
sums  received  from  taxes  and  other  sources,  and  how 
such  moneys  have  been  expended  and  for  what  purpose. 

lb.,  Sec.  7.  1824.     Board    of    tuberculosis    commissioners    given 

corporate  powers. — Each  board  of  tuberculosis  commis- 
sioners created  and  existing  under  the  provisions  of  this 
chapter,  shall  be  a  corporation,  with  power  to  adopt  a 
seal,  to  sue  and  contract,  and  to  acquire  and  dispose  of 
property,  both  real  and  personal,  and  to  do  every  other 
act  and  thing  necessary  to  the  proper  discharge  of  its 
duties  and  functions  as  a  board  of  tuberculosis  com- 
missioners. 

Ch.  3839,  1986.   (1109.)     Governor  to   appoint. — The   Governor 

Acts  1889 

Sec.  1.  '  shall  appoint  three  discreet  citizens  of  the  State  of 
Florida,  who  shall  be  confirmed  by  the  Senate,  and  who 
shall,  after  taking  and  subscribing  an  oath  before  some 
person  competent  to  administer  oaths,  faithfully  to  per- 
form the  duties  of  their  offices,  constitute  the  State 
Board  of  Health. 

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Ch.  4345,  1987.   (1110.)     Regular  meeting,  times  of. — The  regu-^ 

Secfi.  '  lar  meeting  of  the  State  Board  of  Health  shall  be  on  the 
second  Tuesday  of  February  of  each  year. 

1988.  (1111.)  Governor  may  convene  board. — It 
shall  be  the  duty  of  the  members  of  said  board  to  convene 
upon  the  call  of  the  Governor,  at  such  time  and  place  as 
he  may  direct. 


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1989.  (1112.)     Board   to    elect   president   and   health  Sis^f^^^ 
officer, — It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  said  board,  at  their  ^ec  2. 
first  meeting,  to  elect  one  of  their  number  as  president 

of  said  board.  At  the  same  meeting  it  shall  be  the  duty 
of  said  board  to  designate  and  employ  a  physician,  who 
shall  be  an  expert  in  diagnosis  of  yellow  fever,  smallpox, 
cholera  and  other  infectious  diseases,  and  who  must  be  a 
person  of  recognized  ability  and  skilled  in  hygiene  and 
sanitary  science,  and  a  graduate  physician  of  a  recognized 
and  reputable  medical  college,  which  said  person  shall  be 
known  as  the  State  Health  Officer.  The  State  Health 
Oificer  shall  be  the  executive  officer  of  the  board  and 
secretary  of  the  same,  and  shall  hold  the  office  for  the 
term  hereinafter  specified,  unless  removed  by  the  board 
for  just  cause. 

1990.  (1113.)     Terms  of  office.— The  term  of  office  of  ib.,  See  3. 
each  member  of  the  board  of  health  shall  be  four  years 

from  the  date  of  his  appointment,  or  until  his  successor 
is  appointed  and  qualified,  and  the  term  of  employment 
of  State  Health  Officer  shall  be  for  four  years  from  the 
date  of  his  appointment,  or  until  his  successor  is  ap- 
pointed and  qualified :  Provided,  That  should  any  mem- 
ber of  the  said  board  be  and  remain  absent  from  the  State 
for  ten  days  after  any  disease  has  been  declared  epi- 
demic, the  Governor  may  declare  his  office  vacant,  and 
proceed  to  fill  the  same  by  appointment;  and  should  the 
health  officer  be  and  remain  absent  from  the  State  for 
five  days  after  his  attention  has  been  called  to  the 
presence  of  any  disease  in  the  State,  the  board  of  health 
may  declare  the  office  vacant  and  proceed  to  fill  the  same 
by  designation  and  employment  of  a  suitable  person  to 
perform  the  duties  thereof. 

1991.  (1114.)     Physicians  to  make  certain  reports. — It  ib.,  Sec.  4. 
shall  be  the  duty  of  every  practicing  or  licensed  physi- 
cian in  the  State  of  Florida  to  report  immediately  to  the 
president  of  the  board  of  health,  by  telegram  or  in  the 

most  expeditious  manner,  every  case  of  yellow  fever, 
smallpox  or  cholera  that  comes  within  his  practice,  such 


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telegram  to  be  paid  for  out  of  the  funds  provided  for  the 
expenses  of  said  board  of  health. 

1992.  (1115.)  IJuties  of  president  and  health  officers 
concerning  investigation  and  quarantine. — It  shall  be  the 
duty  of  the  president  of  the  board  of  health,  immediately 
upon  the  receipt  of  information  that  there  is  any  case  of 
yellow  fever,  smallpox,  cholera  or  hydrophobia  in  any 
portion  of  this  State,  to  order  the  State  Health  Officer  by 
telegram,  if  he  is  not  at  hand,  to  proceed  immediately 
to  said  place,  and  there  to  investigate  the  said  reported 
case  or  cases  of  yellow  fever,  smallpox,  cholera  or  hydro- 
phobia and  to  report  to  the  said  president  b}  telegram 
the  result  of  his  said  investigation :  Provided,  That  in 
cases  of  hydrophobia,  the  State  Health  Officer  may  be 
represented  by  any  authorized  agent  or  agents  of  the 
State  Board  of  Health,  and  said  State  Health  Officer  shall 
have  power,  and  it  shall  be  his  duty,  to  declare  said  in- 
fected point  and  animal  or  animals  to  be  in  quarantine, 
and  to  place  any  and  all  such  restrictions  upon  ingress 
and  egress  of  animals  or  persons  thereat  as,  in  his  judg- 
ment, shall  be  necessary  to  prevent  a  spread  of  the  dis- 
ease from  the  infected  locality  or  animal  or  animals ;  and 
it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  State  Health  Officer,  when  he 
shall  have  declared  any  city,  town  or  other  place,  or 
animals  to  be  in  quarantine,  to  so  control  the  population 
or  animals  of  said  city,  town  or  other  place,  and  make 
such  disposition  of  the  same  as  shall  in  his  judgment  ap- 
pear best  to  protect  that  population  and  at  the  same  time 
prevent  a  spread  of  the  infection,  or  running  at  large  of 
animals  infected  with  rabies,  among  the  same.  The 
sheriff  and  constables  of  the  several  counties  of  this  State, 
and  the  police  officers  of  the  cities  and  towns  of  this 
State,  shall  be  under  the  control  of  the  said  State  Health 
Officer  to  enforce  and  carry  out  any  and  all  quarantine 
regulations  that  he  may  prescribe,  which  said  regulations 
shall  be  immediately  published  in  the  most  practicable 
manner  in  the  several  counties,  cities,  towns  or  other 
places  where  quarantine  may  be  established;  and  said 
State  Health  Officer  shall  make  immediate  report  of  his 


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actions  and  doings  in  the  premises  to  the  president  of 
the  board  of  health,  and  from  time  to  time,  so  long  as 
quarantine  shall  continue. 

1993.  (1116.J     Duty  of  Governor  to  furnish  means  of   ch.  3839, 

Acts  1889 

enforcing  quarantine. — It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Gover-  sec.  lo.  ' 
nor  of  this  State,  whenever  called  upon  by  the  State 
Health  Officer  so  to  do,  to  furnish  the  said  officer  with  all 
requisite  means  to  enforce  whatever  quarantine  regula- 
tions it  may  be  necessary  in  his  judgment  to  prescribe, 
including  such  armed  force  from  the  militia  of  the  State 
as,  in  the  judgment  of  the  Governor,  may  be  required, 
upon  information  furnished  by  said  officer. 

1994.  (1117.)     Duties  of  State  Health  Officer.— The  ch.4345. 
State   Health   Officer,   under  the   direction  of  the   State  sec.  2.     ' 
Board  of  Health,  shall  have  the  general  administrative 

and  executive  control  of  all  the  maritime  and  domestic 
quarantine  systems  of  the  State.  He  shall  have  the 
power  to  make  arrests  without  warrants  for  any  viola- 
tion of  the  quarantine  rules  and  regulations  of  the  State 
Board  of  Health  after  they  have  been  duly  promulgated. 
He  shall  have  power  to  deputize  sanitary  agents  for  that 
purpose.  In  all  such  cases  the  person  or  persons  arrested 
for  violating  the  quarantine  and  sanitary  rules  aforesaid 
shall  be  surrendered  without  delay  to  the  custody  of  the 
nearest  sheriff  and  formal  complaint  made  against  him, 
her  or  them,  in  accordance  with  law. 

1995.  (1118.)     Quarantine,  etc. — No  quarantine  regu-  ib.,  Sec.  3. 
lations  of  commerce  or  travel  (sea  coast  or  inland)  shall 

be  instituted  or  operated  by  any  port,  place  or  county  of 
this  State  against  any  oth^r  port,  place  or  county  in  this 
or  any  other  State  or  any  foreign  country,  except  by 
authority  of  the  State  Board  of  Health. 

Neither  the  statute  of  1885,  nor  the  statute  of  1879,  establishes  of  itself  a 
quarantine  at  any  place  or  in  any  county,  but  they  leave  it  to  the  board  of 
health  to  establish  the  same  when,  in  their  judgment,  it  is  expedient  for  the 
public  welfare  to  do  so.     Ex  parte  O'Donovan,  24  Fla.   281,  4  So  789. 

1996.  (1119.)     Regulations   concerning   railways   and  ch.  3839, 
vessels. — The  board  of  health  shall  have  power,  and  il    sec!ii.  ' 
shall  be  their  duty  at  all  times,  to  impose  upon  all  rail- 


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way  and  navig-ation  companies,  and  upon  all  individuals 
who  may  own  or  operate  steamships  or  other  vessels 
plying  between  any  of  the  West  Indian,  South  American, 
or  any  other  foreign  ports  and  the  ports  of  the  State  of 
Florida,  such  restrictions  and  regulations  as  to  inspec- 
tion, quarantine  and  sanitary  rules  as,  in  their  judgment, 
may  be  necessary  to  protect  the  health  of  the  people  of 
this  State,  and  which  may  not  be  in  conflict  with  the  acts 
of  Congress  already  passed,  or  that  may  hereafter  be 
passed,  and  do  not  amount  to  an  absolute  interruption  of 
^commerce  with  said  foreign  ports :  Provided,  That 
whenever  any  case  of  yellow  fever,  smallpox,  cholera  or 
other  infectious  disease  shall  appear  or  be  developed 
among  the  passengers,  officers  or  crew  of  any  such 
steamship  or  other  vessel,  said  steamship  or  other  vessel 
shall  be  ordered  in  quarantine  for  such  time  and  under 
such  regulations  as  may  be  prescribed  by  said  board  of 
health :  Provided  further,  That  should  said  board  of 
health  at  any  time  be  convinced  that  yellow  fever,  small- 
pox, cholera  or  other  infectious  disease  exists  in  any 
foreign  port,  in  such  form  that  the  landing  of  any  steam- 
ship or  other  vessel  hailing  from  said  infected  foreign 
port,  at  any  of  the  ports  of  Florida,  will  put  in  peril  the 
health  of  the  people  of  said  State,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of 
said  board  to  put  all  and  any  such  steamships  or  vessels, 
their  crew,  passengers  and  cargo,  in  quarantine  for  such 
time  and  under  such  rules  and  regulations  as  may  be 
prescribed  by  said  board  of  health :  Provided  further. 
That  said  board  of  health  shall  charge  and  receive  from 
such  vessels  undergoing  inspection  or  sanitation,  as  pro- 
vided in  this  section,  such  fee  or  fees  as  said  board  may 
prescribe. 

In  authorizing  a  county  board  of  health  to  establish  quarantine  and  to 
appoint  a  port  inspector,  the  act  of  1885  means  quarantine  as  defined  and 
authorized  by  the  act  of  1879,  and  a  port  inspector  with  the  powers  and  duties 
prescribed  by  the  latter  act.      Ex  parte   O'Donovan,   24  Fla.   281,   4   So.    789. 

The  regulation  of  the  board  of  health  of  Escambia  County,  involved  in 
this  case,  held  to  be  invalid  for  the  reason  that  as  presented  by  the  record  it 
purports  to  be  operated  notwithstanding  the  absence  of  the  establishment  of 
quarantine  by  such   board.      lb. 

The  quarantine  act  of  1885  does  not,  by  virtue  of  the  general  powers  it 
confers  on  county  boards  of  health,  authorize  charges  to  be  made  against  a 
vessel  for  quarantine  purposes.  Ferrari  v  Board  of  Health  Escambia  County, 
24  Fla.  390,  S  So.   1. 

A   reasonable   charge   according   to   tonnage   of   the   material   for   the   use   of 


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a.  crib  erected  by  the  board  for  receiving  ballast,  is  proper  where  the  discharge 
of  the  ballast  is  for  the  purpose  of  disinfection,  but  it  is  not  proper  to  base  any 
charge   on  the   tonnage  of  the  vessel.      lb. 

Under  the  act  of  1879,  as  amended  in  1883,  county  boards  of  health  have 
no  authority  to  collect  from  vessels  coming  into  the  jurisdiction  of  said  boards 
fees  for  fumigation  or  disinfection,  unless  said  vessels  are  subject  to  and 
have  been  put  in  quarantine.  Forbes  v  Board  of  Health  Escambia  County, 
28  Fla.  26,  9  So.  862. 

County  boards  of  health  have  no  authority  without  any  examination  or  in- 
spection to  require  vessels  upon  entering  ports  within  the  jurisdiction  of  said 
boards  to  deviate  from  their  course  six  miles  and  go  to  a  quarantine  station 
for  inspection.     lb. 

1997.  (1120.)     General  powers  of  board.— The  State  ^^  ^^^^ 
Board  of  Health  shall  have  the  general  supervision  of  the  '^H^l^^^' 
public  health   of  the   State   of   Florida,   and   shall   have  l^eni^^g 

^  '  Sec.  772, 

power  to  make,  promulgate  and  enforce  such  rules  and  f^J-  s*^^^- 
regulations  as  may  be  necessary  for  the  preservation  of 
the  same;  and  to  prevent  the  importation  or  spread  of 
hydrophobia. 

1998.  Dissemination  of  information  concerning  com-  q^^_  ^394 
municable  disease. — The  State  Board  of  Health  is  hereby   sec^i.^^^' 
authorized   to    disseminate    information    concerning   the 
cause,   nature,   extent   and   prevention   of   communicable 
disease,  and  shall  arrange  for  free  lectures  and  health 
exhibits,  and  shall  cause  to  be  printed  and  distributed, 

free  of  cost  to  the  people,  bulletins,  pamphlets,  circulars, 
leaflets,  cards  and  other  printed  matter  containing  useful 
information  for  the  protection  of  the  individual  and  the 
public  health. 

1999.  Public  health  exhibits  in  railway  car  author-  ib. 

ized. — Said  board  is  further  authorized  to  send  a  public 
health  exhibit  in  a  railway  car  or  cars  over  the  lines  of 
railroads  in  this  State,  and  shall  cause  the  exhibit  to  be 
displayed  in  the  cities  and  towns  and  other  places  in  its 
discretion  on  such  railway  lines.  With  the  display  of 
the  exhibit  there  may  be  given  free  lectures  and  talks, 
to  the  people,  illustrated,  where  possible,  with  stereopti- 
con  and  moving  pictures,  and  printed  matter  containing 
useful  information  pertaining  to  the  protection  of  health 
and  prevention  of  disease  shall  be  distributed.  The  de- 
tails of  the  work  shall  be  planned  by  the  said  board,  and 
the  State  Health  Officer  may  employ  assistants  to  carry 
on  the  work,  for  such  periods  of  time  as  may  be  neces- 


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sary,  and  shall  fix  their  salaries.  Necessary  expenses  of 
such  employes  shall  be  paid  in  the  same  manner  that  ex- 
penses of  other  employes  of  the  State  Board  of  Health 
are  paid. 

lb..  Sec.  2.  2000.     Railway  companies  may  transport  cars  free. — 

It  shall  be  lawful  for  any  railroad  company  to  furnish 
and  transport,  free  of  charge,  a  car  or  cars  for  the  display 
of  the  public  health  exhibit,  and  to  furnish  free  trans- 
portation to  any  such  car  or  cars  owned  or  used  by  said 
board,  and  to  persons  actually  engaged  in  the  work  in 
connection  with  the  display  of  the  public  health  exhibit. 

lb..  Sec.  3.  2001.     Governing  body  of  any  county  or  city  may  con- 

tribute to  public  health  exhibits. — It  shall  be  lawful  for 
any  county,  city  or  town,  or  the  governing  body  of  any 
county,  city  or  town,  to  contribute  to  the  local  expense 
of  the  display  of  the  public  health  exhibit. 

lb..  Sec.  4.  2002.     State  health  officer  may  accept  contributions 

for  health  exhibits. — It  shall  be  lawful  for  the  State 
Health  Officer  to  accept  donations  and  contributions  to 
the  expense  of  the  display  of  the  public  health  exhibit. 

lb..  Sec.  5.  2003.     Expenses  of  exhibits  to  be  paid  out  of  State 

Board  of  Health  fund. — That  all  expenses  incident  to  or 
necessar}^  in  the  execution  of  any  of  the  powers  of  Sec- 
tions 1998  and  1999,  vested  in  said  State  Board  of  Health 
or  State  Health  Officer,  or  their  employes  or  agents,  shall 
be  paid  by  said  board  out  of  the  funds  for  the  mainten- 
ance and  support  of  said  State  Board  of  Health. 

Ch.  S931,  2004.     Sanitation  of  public  places;  isolation  of  per- 

Acts  1909  •  •  • 

Sec.  1.  '  sons  having  communicable  diseases;  general  sanitation; 
rules,  etc. — That  the  State  Board  of  Health  shall  have 
the  power  to  make,  adopt,  promulgate  and  enforce  rules 
and  regulations  from  time  to  time,  requiring  and  pro- 
viding for  the  thorough  sanitation  and  disinfection  of  all 
passenger  cars,  sleeping  cars,  steamboats  and  other 
vehicles  of  transportation  in  this  State,  and  also  of  all 
convict  camps,  penitentiaries,  jails,  factories,  hotels, 
schools  and  other  places  used  by  or  open  to  the  public; 


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to  provide  for  the  treatment,  segregation  and  disinfection 
of  animals  having  communicably  contagious  or  infectious 
diseases ;  to  provide  for  the  care,  segregation  and  isola- 
tion of  persons  having,  or  suspected  of  having,  any  com- 
municable, contagious  or  infectious  disease;  to  regulate 
the  method  of  disposition  of  garbage  or  sewage  and  any 
other  refuse  matter  in  or  near  any  incorporated  city  or 
town  or  unincorporated  town  or  village  of  this  State ;  to 
provide  for  the  thorough  investigation  and  study  of  the 
causes  of  all  diseases,  epidemics  and  otherwise,  in  this 
State,  and  the  means  for  prevention  of  contagion  and 
disease,  and  the  publication  and  distribution  of  such  in- 
formation as  may  contribute  to  the  preservation  of  the 
public  health  and  the  prevention  of  disease ;  to  super- 
vise and  regulate  municipal  and  county  sanitation;  and 
to  make  separate  orders  and  rules  to  meet  any  emergency 
not  provided  for  by  general  rules  and  regulations 
for  the  purpose  of  suppressing  nuisances  and  com- 
municable, contagious  and  infectious  diseases  and 
other  dangers  to  the  public  life  and  health :  Provided, 
however,  That  nothing  herein  contained  shall  be  con- 
strued as  in  any  wise  preventing  or  restricting  any  per- 
son so  segregated  or  isolated  from  choosing  his  own 
method  of  treatment,  or  in  any  wise  limiting  any  diseased 
person  in  his  right  to  choose  or  select  whatever  method 
or  mode  of  treatment  he  may  believe  to  be  the  most 
efficacious  in  the  cure  of  his  ailment :  Provided,  how- 
ever, That  nothing  herein  contained  shall  be  construed 
as  in  anywise  limiting  any  duty,  power  or  powers  now 
possessed  by  or  heretofore  granted  to  the  said  State 
Board  of  Health  by  the  statutes  of  this  State,  or  as  affect- 
ing, modifying  or  repealing  any  rule  or  regulation  here- 
tofore adopted  by  said  board. 

(Penalty    for    violation    of    rules    made    by     State    Board    of    Health,     see 
Sec.   SS480 


2005.     Sanitary  engineer. — That  the  State  Board  of  ch.  eiee. 
Health  of  Florida  be,  and  is  hereby,  authorized  to  employ  se^c.^i\^2.^ 
or  engage  the  services  of  a  sanitary  engineer,  whose  ex- 
pert knowledge  on  the  subject  shall  be   determined  by 


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the  State  Health  Officer  whenever,  in  the  opinion  of  the 
State  Health  Officer,  the  necessities  of  sanitation  in  and 
about  the  State  may  require  an  expert  opinion  and  de- 
cision in  regard  to  construction  of  sewer,  drainage  of  a 
sanitary  character,  the  disposal  of  sewage  and  domestic 
waste,  or  the  institution  of  potable  water  supply  for  any 
of  the  cities  or  towns  of  the  State  of  Florida. 

That  the  sanitary  engineer,  as  provided  for  by  this 
section,  shall  only  be  employed  at  such  times  and  such 
periods  as,  in  the  judgment  of  the  State  Health  Officer, 
his  expert  services  may  be  required. 

2006.  Compensation  of  sanitary  engineer. — That  the 
compensation  for  services  of  the  sanitary  engineer  pro- 
vided for  in  Section  2CX)5  shall  be  fixed  by  the  State 
Health  Officer,  with  the  approval  of  the  president  of  the 
State  Board  of  Health. 

2007.  (1121.)  Visits  by  health  officer  and  condemna- 
tion of  certain  property. — It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  State 
Health  Officer,  between  the  first  of  November  and  the 
first  of  May  of  each  and  every  year,  and  oftener,  if 
deemed  necessary  by  the  board,  to  visit  all  the  cities  and 
towns,  or  other  points  where  two  or  more  railroads  meet, 
in  the  State  of  Florida,  which,  in  the  judgment  of  the 
board,  it  may  be  necessary  for  him  to  inspect,  and  to 
thoroughly  investigate  the  sanitary  conditions  of  said 
cities  or  towns ;  and  he  shall  have  the  power,  and  it 
shall  be  his  duty,  to  condemn  in  any  of  said  cities  or 
towns  any  sidewalks,  pavements,  buildings,  wharves  or 
other  things  that  in  his  judgment  shall  be  likely  to  pro- 
duce or  cause  the  spread  of  epidemic  diseases ;  and  he 
shall  give  notice  to  the  mayor  and  council  of  such  city 
or  town,  or  other  authority,  to  repair,  remove,  cleanse  or 
remedy  the  same  within  thirty-six  hours,  and  if  the  same 
shall  not  be  done,  as  so  required,  it  shall  be  his  duty  to 
have  the  same  done  himself,  and  the  expense  thereof 
shall  be  paid  out  of  the  health  fund  hereinafter  provided, 
and  be  afterward  assessed  as  a  tax  upon  the  assessable 
property  of   said   city  or  town,  to  be   assessed   by  the 


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county  assessor  upon  the  notification  by  the  health 
officers  of  the  amount,  and  collected  by  the  county  col- 
lector at  the  next  annual  a!ssessment  and  collection  there- 
after, said  amount  so  realized  to  be  replaced  in  the  health 
fund  of  the  State  by  the  proper  authorities:  Provided,  . 
A  list  and  memorandum  of  property  to  be  condemned 
shall  be  made  and  valuation  placed  upon  the  same  by 
three  disinterested  freeholders,  one  to  be  selected  by  said 
health  officer,  one  to  be  selected  by  the  owner  of  the 
property  or  his  agent,  and  the  third  to  be  selected  by  the 
two  freeholders  already  selected,  before  being-  con- 
demned or  destroyed ;  and  the  value  of  any  private  prop- 
erty that  may  be  condemned  and  ordered  to  be  destroyed 
by  the  health  officer  shall  be  paid  to  the  owner  thereof 
out  of  any  funds  provided  and  appropriated  for  the  ex- 
penses of  the  State  Board  of  Health,  upon  the  certificate 
of  said  health  officer  that  said  property  was  destroyed, 
approved  by  the  board  of  health  and  endorsed  by  the 
president  of  the  board. 

2009.  (1123.)  Health  officer  to  act  as  secretary. — It  ch.  3839, 
shall  be  the  duty  of  the  State  Health  Officer  to  attend  sea  u.^^ 
all  meetings  of  said  board  of  health,  and  act  as  secretary 

of  the  same. 

2010.  (1124.)     President    may    call    meetings.— The  j^j^ 
president  of  said  board  of  health  shall  have  power  to  call 
meetings  of  said  board  at  any  time  and  at  such  place  as 

he  may  designate,  to  take  measures  for  the  public  safety. 

2011.  (1125.)     Board  may  abrogate  quarantine. — The  j^j^ 
State  Board  of  Health  shall  have  the  power,  after  close  See.  i4. 
personal  inspection,  to  modify  or  abrogate  any  and  all 
quarantine  regulations  after  they  may  be  established  by 

said  State  Health  Officer. 


2012.  (1126.)  With  consent  of  Governor,  may  call 
upon  general  government. — The  State  Board  of  Health 
shall  have  the  power,  by  and  with  the  consent  of  the 
Governor,  when  the  occasion  demands  it,  to  call  upon  the 
general  government  for  such  aid  as  the  necessities  aris- 
ing out  of  any  epidemic  may  require. 


Ibid. 


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|bid.^^  2013.   (1127.)     Compensation    of    members    of    board 

and  health  officer. — The  State  Health  Officer  shall  receive 
a  salary  of  three  thousand  dollars  a  year,  to  be  paid 
quarterly,  upon  his  requisition,  approved  by  the  president 
of  the  board  of  health,  out  of  the  fund  hereinafter  pro- 
vided, together  A^ith  his  actual  traveling  expenses  while 
engaged  in  the  discharge  of  his  duties  as  State  Health 
Officer.  The  members  of  the  State  Board  of  Health  shall 
receive  a  per  diem  of  six  dollars  for  each  day  of  actual 
session,  with  a  mileage  to  and  from  their  homes  to  the 
place  of  meeting,  by  the  nearest  and  most  practicable 
route,  at  the  rate  of  ten  cents  per  mile. 

Ibid.  2014.(1129).     Oath  and  bond  of  State  Health  Officer. 

Sec   18. 

The  State  Health  Officer,  before  entering  upon  his 
duties,  shall  take  before  some  person  competent  to  ad- 
minister oaths,  an  oath  to  faithfully  perform  the  duties 
of  his  office,  and  enter  into  a  bond,  with  good  and 
sufficient  sureties,  in  the  sum  of  ten  thousand  dollars, 
payable  to  the  president  of  the  board  of  health,  said 
bond  to  be  approved  by  said  president,  conditioned  for 
the  faithful  discharge  of  his  duties.  Said  bond  to  be 
prosecuted  by  the  Attorney-General  for  any  neglect  of 
duty  or  abuse  of  power  herein  conferred,  and  if  said  bond 
should  be  forfeited,  all  amounts  collected  from  such 
prosecution  shall  be  placed  to  the  credit  of  the  before- 
named  health  fund,  by  said  president  of  the  board. 

lb.,  2015.   (1130).     President  to  certify  expenses  and  re- 

port to  Governor. — All  expenditures  of  the  board  of 
health  shall  be  certified  by  the  president  of  the  board,  and 
he  shall  make  an  annual  report  to  the  Governor  of  all 
such  expenditures,  in  a  clear  and  concise  statement,  to- 
gether with  any  special  observations,  and  recommenda- 
tions of  fact  that  he  may  present  that  would  be  conducive 
to  the  health  and  sanitary  condition  of  the  State ;  and 
such  annual  statements  shall  finally  be  submitted  by  the 
Governor  to  the  State  Legislature,  when  in  regular  ses- 
sion convened,  and  shall  be  published  like  other  reports 
of  State  officers,  and  the  president  of  said  board  shall; 


Ch.  4693, 


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hold  for  inspection  properly  certified  vouchers  for  such 
expenditures,  a  copy  of  which  shall  be  furnished  the 
Comptroller,  who  shall  not  draw  his  warrant  on  the 
Treasurer  without  the  proper  certificates  and  vouchers. 

2016.  (1131.)     One-half  mill  tax  for  State  Board  of  ^^  ^^^^ 
Health.— There   shall  be   levied   and   collected   annually  t|%^^^^- 
upon  the  assessable  property  of  the  State  a  tax  of  one- 
half  of  one  mill  to  create  a  special  fund  for  the  mainte- 
nance and  support  of  the  State  Board  of  Health  other  than 
for  maintenance,  quarantine  or  maritime  sanitation. 

.,n„^^f^*'°''  1^  of  Chapter  4516  of  the  laws  of  1897,  providing  for  the  levy 
upon  the  real  and  personal  property  of  three  and  one-half  mills  upon  the  dol- 
lar tor  the  current  expenses  of  the  State  for  each  of  the  years  1897  and  1898, 
Demg  a  part  of  a  general  law  providing  for  levyin'g  taxes  in  those  years,  does 
not  take  away  the  power  conferred  by  section  784  of  the  revised  statutes  of 
levying  a  special  tax  of  not  more  than  one-half  miU  for  public  health  purposes 
in  addition  to  the  three  and  one-half  mills  provided  for  in  section  1  of  chapter 
4516,  section  784  being  a  special  law.  Nor  is  it  necessary  to  make  a  levy  legal 
under  the  latter  section  that  there  should  be  a  further  act  of  appropriation  of 
the  money  raised  thereunder.  State  v  Southern  L.  &  T.  Co.,  45  Fla.  374,  33 
oo.  yyy.  ' 

2017.  (1132.)  Comptroller  to  audit  account  and  draw  ibid. 
warrant.— Upon  the  presentation  to  the  Comptroller  of  ^^''■^■ 
any  accounts  duly  approved  by  the  State  Board  of 
Health,  accompanied  by  such  itemized  vouchers  as  shall 
be  required  by  him,  the  Comptroller  is  hereby  authorized 
to  audit  the  same  and  draw  a  warrant  on  the  State 
Treasurer  for  the  amount  for  which  the  account  is 
audited,  np-upKIp  a^^^■  of  +>>^  t^^„o-c.  ^^^^,-,,„^  4^^^^  ^-1,^ 
port  to  the  State  Board  of  Health. 

^  M^^^ioi.id.1 ,  ana  to  all  ot  trie  provrsiuns  T:m.mo -^-^^^j- 

ter.  Any  vacancy  occurring-  in  the  office  of  local  registrar 
of  vital  statistics  shall  be  filled  for  the  unexpired  term 
by  the  State  Registrar.  At  least  ten  days  before  the 
expiration  of  the  term  of  office  of  any  such  local  registrar, 
his  successor  shall  be  appointed  by  the  State  Registrar. 
Any  local  registrar  who,  in  the  judgment  of  the  State 
Registrar,  fails  or  neglects  to  discharge  efficiently  the 
duties  of  his  office  as  set  forth  in  this  Chapter,  or  to  make 
prompt  and  complete  returns  of  births  and  deaths  as  re- 
quired thereby,  shall  be  forthwith  removed  by  the  State 
Registrar,  and  such  other  penalties  may  be  imposed  as 
are  provided  under  Section  5550. 


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and  the  Comptroller  shall  audit  the  accounts  and  vouch- 
ers, and  draw  his  warrants  upon  the  treasury  for  the 
amount  due,  and  shall  pay  over  to  the  Treasurer  such 
warrant  and  any  amount  returned  by  the  State  Board  of 
Health,  as  provided  for  in  this  section,  taken  up  by  the 
requisition  of  the  State  Board  of  Health  given  to  the 
Treasurer. 

Ch.  6167,  2019.     Authorized  to  establish  plant  for  distribution 

Sec.  1.  '  of  hog  cholera  serum. — The  State  Board  of  Health  is 
hereby  authorized  and  empowered  to  establish,  maintain 
and  operate  a  plant  for  the  protection  and  distribution 
of  hog  cholera  serum  for  the  purpose  of  distribution  to 
the  farmers  of  this   State  upon  application  therefor. 

No  cost  shall  be  charged  by  the  State  Board  of  Health 
for  the  hog  cholera  serum  so  distributed. 

(Act  designating  headquarters  of  state  board  of  health,  see  Ch.  7826, 
Acts   1919.) 

(Act  authorizing  state  board  of  health  to  sell  certain  property,  see  Ch. 
7827,   Acts  of   1919.) 

(Act  making  it  the  duty  of  state  board  of  health  to  make  certain  analyses, 
see  Ch.  7830,  Acts  of  1919.) 


CHAPTER  II 
MEDICAL  INSPECTION  OF  SCHOOL  CHILDREN 

named  health  fund,  by  said  president  of  the  board. 

lb.,  2015.   (1130).     President  to  certify  expenses  and  re- 

port to  Governor. — All  expenditures  of  the  board  of 
health  shall  be  certified  by  the  president  of  the  board,  and 
he  shall  make  an  annual  report  to  the  Governor  of  all 
such  expenditures,  in  a  clear  and  concise  statement,  to- 
gether with  any  special  observations,  and  recommenda- 
tions of  fact  that  he  may  present  that  would  be  conducive 
to  the  health  and  sanitary  condition  of  the  State;  and 
such  annual  statements  shall  finally  be  submitted  by  the 
Governor  to  the  State  Legislature,  when  in  regular  ses- 
sion convened,  and  shall  be  published  like  other  reports 
of  State  officers,  and  the  president  of  said  board  shall 


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2070.  Registration  districts  established. — That  for  ibid., 
the  purposes  of  this  Chapter  the  State  shall  be  aividea 
into  registration  districts  as  follows :  Each  city  and  each 
incorporated  town  shall  constitute  a  primary  registra- 
tion district ;  and  for  that  portion  of  each  county  outside 
of  the  cities  and  incorporated  towns  therein  the  State 
Registrar  shall  define  and  designate  the  boundaries  of  a 
sufficient  number  of  rural  registration  districts,  which 
districts  he  may  change,  divide  or  combine  from  time  to 
time  as  may  be  necessary  to  insure  the  convenience  and 
completeness  of  registration. 


Ibid., 
Sec.  4. 


2071.  Appointment  of  local  registrars;  term  of  office; 
vacancies;  penalty. — That  the  State  Registrar  shall  ap- 
point a  local  registrar  of  vital  statistics  for  each  registra- 
tion district  in  the  State.  The  term  of  office  of  each  local 
registrar  so  appointed  shall  be  four  years,  and  until  his 
successor  has  been  appointed  and  has  qualified,  unless 

2023.  Cities  already  having  medical  inspection  not  ibid., 
affected. — The  provisions  of  this  chapter  shall  not  affect 
cities  of  over  five  thousand  inhabitants,  where  medical 
inspection  of  school  children  has  already  been  established 
under  the  jurisdiction  of  the  city  board  of  health,  pro- 
vided that  the  city  board  of  health  adopt  the  forms  pre- 
scribed by  the  State  Board  of  Health,  and  make  full  re- 
port to  the  State  Board  of  Health. 
^  ^vv^gisLid,!,  ana  to  all  ot  tne  provisiuns  \ji  un. 

ter.  Any  vacancy  occurring  in  the  office  of  local  registrar 
of  vital  statistics  shall  be  filled  for  the  unexpired  term 
by  the  State  Registrar.  At  least  ten  days  before  the 
expiration  of  the  term  of  office  of  any  such  local  registrar, 
his  successor  shall  be  appointed  by  the  State  Registrar. 
Any  local  registrar  who,  in  the  judgment  of  the  State 
Registrar,  fails  or  neglects  to  discharge  efficiently  the 
duties  of  his  office  as  set  forth  in  this  Chapter,  or  to  make 
prompt  and  complete  returns  of  births  and  deaths  as  re- 
■  quired  thereby,  shall  be  forthwith  removed  by  the  State 
Registrar,  and  such  other  penalties  may  be  imposed  as 
are  provided  under  Section  5550. 


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and  the  Comptroller  shall  audit  the  accounts  and  vouch- 
ers, and  draw  his  warrants  upon  the  treasury  for  the 
amount  due,  and  shall  pay  over  to  the  Treasurer  such 
warrant  and  any  amount  returned  by  the  State  Board  of 
Health,  as  provided  for  in  this  section,  taken  up  by  the 
requisition  of  the  State  Board  of  Health  given  to  the 
Treasurer. 

Ch.  6167,  2019.     Authorized  to  establish  plant  for  distribution 

Acts  1911 

Sec.  1.  '  of  hog  cholera  serum. — The  State  Board  of  Health  is 
hereby  authorized  and  empowered  to  establish,  maintain 
and  operate  a  plant  for  the  protection  and  distribution 
of  hog  cholera  serum  for  the  purpose  of  distribution  to 
the  farmers  of  this  State  upon  application  therefor. 

No  cost  shall  be  charged  by  the  State  Board  of  Health 
for  the  hog  cholera  serum  so  distributed. 

(Act    designating    headquarters    of  jtate    board    of    health,    see    Ch.    7826, 

registration  district  as  constituted  in  Section  2070,  and 
in  the  central  bureau  of  vital  statistics  at  the  office  of  the 
State  Board  of  Health.  The  said  board  shall  be  charged 
with  the  uniform  and  thorough  enforcement  of  the  law 
throughout  the  State,  and  shall  from  time  to  time  recom- 
mend any  additional  legislation  that  may  be  necessary  for 
this  purpose. 

Ibid..  206_Q._--Cont»n?.\  'Qy-sarci-  pfes'iacnT'ohtPM'^etxxamoensa.- 

ib.,  2015.   (1130).     President  to  certify  expenses  and  re- 

Sec.  19.  _  J  i. 

port  to  Governor. — All  expenditures  of  the  board  of 
health  shall  be  certified  by  the  president  of  the  board,  and 
he  shall  make  an  annual  report  to  the  Governor  of  all 
such  expenditures,  in  a  clear  and  concise  statement,  to- 
gether with  any  special  observations,  and  recommenda- 
tions of  fact  that  he  may  present  that  would  be  conducive 
to  the  health  and  sanitary  condition  of  the  State;  and 
such  annual  statements  shall  finally  be  submitted  by  the 
Governor  to  the  State  Legislature,  when  in  regular  ses- 
sion convened,  and  shall  be  published  like  other  reports 
of  State  officers,  and  the  president  of  said  board  shall' 


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2070.  Registration  districts  established. — That  for  ibid., 
the  purposes  of  this  Chapter  the  State  shall  be  divided 
into  registration  districts  as  follows :  Each  city  and  each 
incorporated  town  shall  constitute  a  primary  registra- 
tion district;  and  for  that  portion  of  each  county  outside 
of  the  cities  and  incorporated  towns  therein  the  State 
Registrar  shall  define  and  designate  the  boundaries  of  a 
sufficient  number  of  rural  registration  districts,  which 
districts  he  may  change,  divide  or  combine  from  time  to 
time  as  may  be  necessary  to  insure  the  convenience  and 
completeness  of  registration. 


2071.  Appointment  of  local  registrars;  term  of  office; 
vacancies;  penalty. — That  the  State  Registrar  shall  ap- 
point a  local  registrar  of  vital  statistics  for  each  registra- 
tion district  in  the  State.  The  term  of  office  of  each  local 
registrar  so  appointed  shall  be  four  years,  and  until  his 
successor  has  been  appointed  and  has  qualified,  unless 
such  office  shall  sooner  become  vacant  by  death,  dis- 
qualification, operation  of  law,  or  other  causes  :  Provided, 
That  in  incorporated  towns  or  cities  where  health  officers 
or  other  officials  are,  in  the  judgment  of  the  State  Regis- 
trar, conducting  effective  registration  of  births  and  deaths 
under  local  ordinances,  such  officials  may  be  appointed 
as  registrars  in  and  for  such  incorporated  towns  or 
cities,  and  shall  be  subject  to  the  instructions  of  the 
State  Registrar,  and  to  all  of  the  provisions  of  this  Chap- 
ter. Any  vacancy  occurring  in  the  office  of  local  registrar 
of  vital  statistics  shall  be  filled  for  the  unexpired  term 
by  the  State  Registrar.  At  least  ten  days  before  the 
expiration  of  the  term  of  office  of  any  such  local  registrar, 
his  successor  shall  be  appointed  by  the  State  Registrar. 

Any  local  registrar  who,  in  the  judgment  of  the  State 
Registrar,  fails  or  neglects  to  discharge  efficiently  the 
duties  of  his  office  as  set  forth  in  this  Chapter,  or  to  make 
prompt  and  complete  returns  of  births  and  deaths  as  re- 
quired thereby,  shall  be  forthwith  removed  by  the  State 
Registrar,  and  such  other  penalties  may  be  imposed  as 
are  provided  under  Section  5550. 


Ibid., 
Sec.  4. 


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II'-  2072.     Deputy  registrars;  sub-registrars. — Each  local 

registrar  shall,  immediately  upon  his  acceptance  of  ap- 
pointment as  such,  appoint  a  deputy,  whose  duty  it  shall 
be  to  act  in  his  stead  in  case  of  his  absence  or  disability; 
and  such  deputy  shall  in  writing  accept  such  appointment, 
and  be  subject  to  all  instructions  governing  local  regis- 
trars. And  when  it  appears  necessary  for  the  con- 
venience of  the  people,  in  any  district,  the  State  Registrar 
is  hereby  authorized,  to  appoint  one  or  more  suitable  per- 
sons to  act  as  sub-registrars,  who  shall  be  authorized  to 
receive  certificates,  to  issue  burial,  removal,  or  other  per- 
mits in  and  for  such  portions  of  the  district  as  may  be 
designated ;  and  each  sub-registrar  shall  note,  on  each 
certificate,  over  his  signature,  the  date  of  filing,  and  shall 
forward  all  certificates  to  the  local  registrar  of  the  dis- 
trict within  ten  days,  and  in  all  cases  before  the  third 
day  of  the  following  month :  Provided,  That  such  sub- 
registrar  shall  be  subject  to  the  supervision  and  control 
of  the  State  Registrar,  and  may  be  by  him  removed  for 
neglect  or  failure  to  perform  his  duty  in  accordance  with 
the  provisions  of  this  Chapter  or  the  instructions  of  the 
State  Registrar,  and  shall  be  subject  to  the  same  penal- 
ties for  neglect  of  duty  as  the  local  registrar. 

ibid.,^  2073.     Burial     permit;     removal    permit. — That    the 

body  of  any  person  whose  death  occurs  in  this  State,  or 
which  shall  be  found  dead  therein,  shall  not  be  interred, 
deposited  in  a  vault  or  tomb,  cremated  or  otherwise  dis- 
posed of,  or  removed  from  or  into  any  registration  dis- 
trict, or  be  temporarily  held  pending  further  disposition 
more  than  seventy-two  hours  after  death,  unless  a  per- 
mit for  burial,  removal,  or  other  disposition  thereof  shall 
have  been  properly  issued  by  the  local  registrar  of  the 
registration  district  in  which  the  death  occurred  or  the 
body  was  found.  And  no  such  burial  or  removal  permit 
shall  be  issued  by  any  registrar  until,  wherever  practi- 
cable, a  complete  and  satisfactory  certificate  of  death 
has  been  filed  with  him  as  hereinafter  provided :  Pro- 
vided, That  when  a  dead  body  is  transported  from  out- 
side the  State  into  a  registration  district  in  Florida  for 


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burial,  the  transit  or  removal  permit,  issued  in  accord- 
ance with  the  law  and  health  regulations  of  the  place 
where  the  death  occurred,  shall  be  accepted  by  the  local 
registrar  of  the  district  into  which  the  body  has  been 
transported  for  burial  or  other  disposition,  as  a  basis 
upon  which  he  may  issue  a  local  burial  permit;  he  shall 
note  upon  the  face  of  the  burial  permit  the  fact  that  it 
was  a  body  shipped  in  for  interment,  and  give  the  actual 
place  of  death ;  and  no  local  registrar  shall  receive  any 
fee  for  the  issuance  of  burial  or  removal  permits  under 
this  Chapter  other  than  the  compensation  provided  in 
Section  2090. 

2074.     "Stillborn"    child    to    be    registered.— That    a  j^ 

stillborn  child  shall  be  registered  as  a  birth  and  also  as  a  s^<=-  ^■ 
death,  and  separate  certificates  of  both  the  birth  and 
death  shall  be  filed  with  the  local  registrar,  in  the  usual 
form  and  manner,  the  certificate  of  birth  to  contain  in 
place  of  the- name  of  the  child,  the  word  "stillbirth;" 
Provided,  That  a  certificate  of  birth  and  a  certificate  of 
death  shall  not  be  required  for  a  child  that  has  not  ad- 
vanced to  the  fifth  month  of  uterogestation.  The  medi- 
cal certificate  of  the  cause  of  death  be  signed  by  the  at- 
tending physician,  if  any,  and  shall  state  the  cause  of 
death  as  "stillborn,"  with  the  cause  of  the  stillbirth,  if 
known,  whether  a  premature  birth,  and,  if  born  prema- 
turely, the  period  of  uterogestation,  in  months,  if  known ; 
and  a  burial  or  removal  permit  of  the  prescribed  form 
shall  be  required.  Midwives  shall  not  sign  certificates 
of  death  for  stillborn  children ;  but  such  cases,  and  still- 
births occurring  without  attendance  of  a  physician,  shall 
be  treated  as  deaths  without  medical  attendance,  as  pro- 
vided for  in  Section  2077. 


2075.  Death  certificate. — That  the  certificate  of  death 
shall  be  on  the  standard  form  approved  by  the  United 
States  Bureau  of  the  Census,  all  of  the  items  of  which 
are  hereby  declared  necessary  for  the  legal,  social,  and 
sanitary  purposes  subserved  by  registration  records. 
The  personal  and  statistical  particulars  shall  be  authenti- 


Ib.. 
Sec.  7. 


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cated  by  the  signature  of  the  informant,  who  may  be  any 
competent  person  acquainted  with  the  facts. 

The  statement  of  facts  relating  to  the  disposition  of 
the  body  shall  be  signed  by  the  undertaker  or  person 
acting  as  such. 

^^-  2076.     Medical    certificate. — The    medical    certificate 

shall  be  made  and  signed  by  the  physician,  if  any,  last 
in  attendance  on  the  deceased,  who  shall  specify  the 
time  in  attendance,  the  time  he  last  saw  the  deceased 
alive  and  the  hour  of  the  day  at  which  death  occurred. 
And  he  shall  further  state  the  cause  of  death,  so  as  to 
show  the  course  of  disease  or  sequence  of  causes  result- 
ing in  the  death,  giving  first  the  name  of  the  disease 
causing  death  (primary  cause),  and  the  contributory 
(secondary)  cause,  if  any,  and  the  duration  of  each. 
Indefinite  and  unsatisfactory  terms,  denoting  only  symp- 
toms of  disease  or  conditions  resulting  from  disease,  will 
not  be  held  sufficient  for  the  issuance  of  a  burial  or  re- 
moval permit ;  and  any  certificate  containing  only  such 
terms,  as  defined  by  the  State  Registrar,  shall  be  returned 
to  the  physician  or  person  making  the  medical  certificate 
for  correction  and  more  definite  statement.  Causes  of 
death  which  may  be  the  result  of  either  disease  or  violence 
shall  be  carefully  defined;  and  if  from  violence,  the 
means  of  injury  shall  be  stated,  and  whether  (probably) 
accidental,  suicidal,  or  homicidal.  And  for  deaths  in 
hospitals,  institutions,  or  of  non-residents,  transients,  or 
recent  residents,  the  physician  shall  supply  the  informa- 
tion required  under  this  head,  if  he  is  able  to  do  so,  and 
may  state  where,  in  his  opinion,  the  disease  was  con- 
tracted. 

p-  „  2077.     Where     death     occurs    without     medical     at- 

Sec.  8. 

tendance. — That  in  case  of  any  death  occurring  without 
medical  attendance,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  under- 
taker, or  other  person  to  whose  knowledge  the  death 
may  come,  to  notify  the  local  registrar  of  such  death,  and 
when  so  notified  the  registrar  shall,  prior  to  the  issuance 
of  the  permit,  inform  the  local  health  officer  and  refer  the 


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case  to  him  for  immediate  investigation  and  certification ; 
Provided,  That  when  the  local  health  officer  is  not  a  phy- 
sician, or  when  there  is  no  such  official,  and  in  such  cases 
only,  the  registrar  is  authorized  to  make  the  certificate 
and  return  from  the  statement  of  relatives  or  other  per- 
sons having  adequate  knowledge  of  the  facts ;  Provided, 
further,  That  if  the  undertaker,  or  person  acting  as  such, 
or  the  registrar,  has  reason  to  believe  that  the  death  may 
have  been  due  to  unlawful  act  or  neglect,  the  registrar 
shall  then  refer  the  case  to  the  coroner  or  other  proper 
officer  for  his  investigation  and  certification.  And  the 
coroner  or  other  proper  officer  whose  duty  it  is  to  hold 
an  inquest  on  the  body  of  any  deceased  person,  and  to 
make  the  certificate  of  death  required  for  a  burial  per- 
mit, shall  state  in  his  certificate  the  name  of  the  disease 
causing  death,  or  if  from  external  causes,  (1)  the  means 
of  death ;  and  (2)  whether  (probably)  accidental,  suicidal, 
or  homicidal;  and  shall,  in  any  case,  furnish  such  infor- 
mation as  may  be  required  by  the  State  Registrar  in 
order  properly  to  classify  the  death. 

2078.  Duty  of  undertaker. — That  the  undertaker  or  ib., 
person  acting  as  undertaker,  shall  file  the  certificate  of 
death  with  the  local  registrar  of  the  district  in  which  the 
death  occurred  and  obtain  a  burial,  removal,  or  other 
permit  prior  to  any  disposition  of  the  body.  He  shall 
obtain  the  required  personal  and  statistical  particulars- 
from  the  person  best  qualified  to  supply  them,  over  the 
signature  and  address  of  his  informant.  He  shall  then 
present  the  certificate  of  the  attending  physician,  if  any, 
or  to  the  health  officer  or  coroner,  as  directed  by  the 
local  registrar,  for  the  medical  certificate  of  the  cause  of 
death  and  other  particulars  necessary  to  complete  the 
record,  as  specified  in  Sections  2075,  2076  and  2077. 
And  he  shall  then  state  the  facts  required  relative  to  the 
date  and  place  of  burial,  other  disposition,  or  removal, 
over  his  signature  and  with  his  address,  and  present  the 
complete  certificate  to  the  local  registrar  in  order  to  ob- 
tain a  permit  for  burial,  removal  or  other  disposition  of 
the  body.     The  undertaker  shall  deliver  the  burial  per- 


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mit  to  the  person  in  charge  of  the  place  of  burial,  before 
interring  or  otherwise  disposing  of  the  body ;  or  shall 
attach  the  removal  and  transit  permit  to  the  box  contain- 
ing the  corpse,  when  shipped  by  any  transportation  com- 
pany ;  said  permit  to  accompany  the  corpse  to  its  destina- 
tion, where,  if  within  the  State  of  Florida,  the  removal 
permit  shall  be  delivered  to  the  person  in  charge  of  the 
place  of  burial. 

lb.  2079.     Casket    dealers    to    make    monthly    reports. — 

Every  person,  firm  or  corporation  selling  a  casket  shall 
keep  a  record  showing  the  name  of  the  purchaser,  pur- 
chaser's post  office  address,  name  of  deceased,  date  of 
death,  place  of  death,  and  color  or  race  of  deceased, 
which  record  shall  be  open  to  inspection  of  the  State 
Registrar  at  all  times.  On  the  first  day  of  each  month 
the  person,  firm  or  corporation  selling  caskets  shall  re- 
port to  the  State  Registrar  each  sale  for  the  preceding 
month,  on  a  blank  provided  for  that  purpose :  Provided, 
however.  That  no  person,  firm  or  corporation  selling 
caskets  to  dealers  or  undertakers  only  shall  be  required 
to  keep  such  record,  nor  shall  such  report  be  required 
from  undertakers  when  they  have  direct  charge  of  the 
disposition  of  a  dead  body. 

Every  person,  firm,  or  corporation  selling  a  casket  at 
retail,  and  not  having  charge  of  the  disposition  of  the 
body,  shall  inclose  within  the  casket  a  notice  furnished 
by  the  State  Registrar  calling  attention  to  the  require- 
ments of  the  law,  and  a  blank  certificate  of  death. 

lb.,  2080.     Burial  or  removal  permit;  certificate  of  death. 

That  if  the  interment,  or  other  disposition  of  the  body 
is  to  be  made  within  the  State,  the  wording  of  the  burial 
or  removal  permit  may  be  limited  to  a  statement  by  the 
registrar,  and  over  his  signature,  that  a  satisfactory  cer- 
tificate of  death  having  been  filed  with  him,  as  required 
by  law,  permission  is  granted  to  inter,  remove,  or  dispose 
otherwise  of  the  body,  upon  the  form  prescribed  by  the 
State  Registrar. 


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2081.  Interment  prohibited  unless  body  accompanied    ^^^'  ^^ 
by  burial  permit;  keepers  of  burial  places  to  keep  rec- 
ords; form. — That  no  person  in  charge  of  any  premises 

on  which  interments,  or  other  dispositions  are  made  shall 
inter  or  permit  the  interment  or  other  disposition  of  any 
body  unless  it  is  accompanied  by  a  burial,  other  dispo- 
sition, or  removal  permit  as  herein  provided.  Any  such 
person  shall  endorse  upon  the  permit  the  date  of  inter- 
ment, or  other  disposition,  over  his  signature,  and  shall 
return  all  permits  so  endorsed  to  the  local  registrar  of 
his  district  within  ten  days  from  the  date  of  interment  or 
other  disposition.  He  shall  keep  a  record  of  all  bodies 
interred  or  otherwise  disposed  of  on  the  premises  under 
his  charge  in  each  case  stating  the  name  and  color  or 
race  of  each  deceased  person,  place  of  death,  date  of  burial 
or  disposal,  and  name  and  address  of  the  undertaker; 
which  record  shall  at  all  times  be  open  to  official  inspec- 
tion :  Provided :  That  the  undertaker  or  person  acting  as 
such,  when  burying  a  body  in  a  cemetery  or  burial 
grounds  having  no  person  in  charge,  shall  sign  the  burial 
or  removal  permit,  giving  the  date  of  burial,  and  shall 
write  across  the  face  of  the  permit  the  words  "No  person 
in  charge,"  and  file  the  burial  or  removal  permit  within 
ten  days  with  the  registrar  of  the  district  in  which  the 
cemetery  is  located. 

2082.  All  births  to  be  registered. — That  the  birth  of  u,., 
each  and  every  child  born  in  this  State  shall  be  regis-   ^^''-  ^^• 
tered  as  hereinafter  provided. 

2083.  Certificate  of  birth. — That  within  ten  days  after  ib., 
the  date  of  each  birth  there  shall  be  filed  with  the  local 
registrar  of  the  district  in  which  the  birth  occurred  a  cer- 
tificate of  such  birth,  as  provided  in  Section  2084. 

In  each  case  where  a  physician,  midwife  or  person 
acting  as  midwife,  was  in  attendance  upon  the  birth,  it 
shall  be  the  duty  of  such  physician,  midwife  or  person 
acting  as  midwife,  to  file  in  accordance  herewith  the 
certificate  herein   contemplated. 

In  each  case  where  there  was  no  physician,  midwife 


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or  person  acting  as  midwife,  in  attendance  upon  the 
birth,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  father  or  mother  of  the 
child,  the  householder  or  owner  of  the  premises  where 
the  birth  occurred,  or  the  manager  or  superintendent  of 
the  public  or  private  institution  where  the  birth  occurred, 
each  in  the  order  named,  within  ten  days  after  the  date 
of  such  birth,  to  report  to  the  local  registrar  the  fact  of 
such  birth.  In  such  case  and  in  case  the  physician,  mid- 
wife, or  person  acting  as  midwife,  in  attendance  upon  the 
birth  is  unable,  by  diligent  inquiry,  to  obtain  any  item  or 
items  of  information  on  the  certificate  of  birth,  it  shall 
then  be  the  duty  of  the  local  registrar  to  secure  from  the 
person  so  reporting,  or  from  any  other  person  having 
acquired  knowledge,  such  information  as  will  enable 
him  to  prepare  the  certificate  of  birth  herein  contem- 
plated, and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  person  reporting 
the  birth  or  who  may  be  interrogated  in  relation  thereto 
to  answer  correctly  and  to  the  best  of  his  knowledge  all 
questions  put  to  him  by  the  local  registrar  which  may 
be  calculated  to  elicit  any  information  needed  to  make 
the  complete  record  of  the  birth  as  contemplated,  and  it 
shall  be  the  duty  of  the  informant  as  to  any  statement 
made  in  accordance  herewith  to  verify  such  statement 
by  his  signature. 

2084.     Certificate  of  birth  to  be  of  standard  form. — 

Sec.  14.  That  the  certificate  of  birth  shall  be  on  the  standard  form 
approved  by  the  United  States  Bureau  of  the  Census,  all 
of  the  items  of  which  are  hereby  declared  necessary  for 
the  legal,  social,  and  sanitary  purposes  subserved  by 
registration  records. 

lb.,  2085.     Certificate   of  birth   to   show   given   name   of 

Sec.  15. 

child. — That  when  any  certificate  of  birth  of  a  living  child 
is  presented  without  the  statement  of  the  given  name, 
then  the  local  registrar  shall  make  out  and  deliver  to  the 
parents  of  the  child  a  special  blank  for  supplemental  re- 
port of  the  given  name  of  the  child,  which  shall  be  filled 
out  as  directed,  and  returned  to  the  local  registrar  as 
soon  as  the  child  shall  have  been  named. 


lb., 


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2086.  Physicians,  midwives,  sextons,  retail  casket  |^-^  ^g 
dealers,  and  undertakers  must  register ;  local  registrars  to 
make  annual  reports. — That  every  physician,  midwife, 
sexton,  retail  casket  dealer,  and  undertaker  shall,  with- 
out delay,  register  his  or  her  name,  address  and  occupa- 
tion and  color  or  race,  with  the  local  registrar  of  the  dis- 
trict in  which  he  or  she  resides  or  may  hereafter  estab- 
lish a  residence,  and  shall  thereupon  be  supplied  by  the 
local  registrar  with  a  copy  of  this  chapter,  together  with 
such  instructions  as  may  be  prepared  by  the  State  Regis- 
trar relative  to  its  enforcement.    Within  thirty  days  after 

the  close  of  each  calendar  year  each  local  registrar  shall 
make  a  return  to  the  State  Registrar  of  all  physicians, 
midwives,  sextons  retail  casket  dealers,  or  undertakers 
who  have  registered  in  his  district  during  the  whole  or 
any  part  of  the  preceding  calendar  year :  Provided,  That 
no  fee  or  other  compensation  shall  be  charged  by  local 
registrars  to  physicians,  midwives,  sextons,  retail  casket 
dealers,  or  undertakers  for  registering  their  names  under 
this  Section  or  making  returns  thereof  to  the  State 
Registrar. 

2087.  Hospitals    and   almshouses   required   to    keep  u,., 
certain  records. — That  all  superintendents  or  managers,  ^^'^'  ^'^' 
or  other  persons  in  charge  of  hospitals,  almshouses,  lying 

in  or  other  institutions,  public  or  private,  to  which  per- 
sons resort  for  treatment  of  diseases,  confinement,  or 
are  committed  by  process  of  law,  shall  make  a  record 
of  all  the  personal  and  statistical  particulars  relative  to 
the  inmates  in  their  institutions  at  the  date  of  the  ap- 
proval of  this  Act,  which  are  required  in  the  forms  of  the 
certificates  provided  for  by  this  chapter,  as  directed  by 
the  State  Registrar;  and  thereafter  such  record  shall  be, 
by  them  made  for  all  future  inmates  at  the  time  of  their 
admittance.  And  in  case  of  persons  admitted  or  com- 
mitted for  treatment  of  disease,  the  physician  in  charge 
shall  specify  for  entry  in  the  record,  the  nature  of  the 
disease,  and  where,  in  his  opinion,  it  was  contracted,  or 
if  injured  the  nature  and  cause  thereof.     The  personal 


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particulars  and  information  required  by  this  Section  shall 
be  obtained  from  the  individual  himself  if  it  is  practicable 
to  do  so ;  and  when  they  can  not  be  so  obtained,  they 
shall  be  obtained  in  as  complete  a  manner  as  possible 
from  relatives,  friends,  or  other  persons  acquainted  with 
the  facts. 

lb.,  2088.     State  Registrar  to  supply  all  blanks  and  forms; 

duties. — That  the  State  Registrar  shall  prepare,  print 
and  supply  to  all  registrars  all  blanks  and  forms  used  in 
registering,  recording  and  preserving  the  returns,  or  in 
otherwise  carrying  out  the  purposes  of  this  chapter;  and 
shall  prepare  and  issue  such  detailed  instructions  as  may 
be  required  to  procure  the  uniform  observance  of  its  pro- 
visions and  the  maintenance  of  a  perfect  system  of  regis- 
tration ;  and  no  other  blanks  shall  be  used  than  those  sup- 
plied by  the  State  Registrar.  He  shall  carefully  examine 
the  certificates  received  monthly  from  the  local  registrars, 
and  if  any  such  are  incomplete  or  unsatisfactory  he  shall 
require  such  further  information  to  be  supplied  as  may 
be  necessary  to  make  the  record  complete  and  satisfac- 
tory. And  all  physicians,  midwives,  informants,  or 
undertakers,  and  all  other  persons  having  knowledge  of 
the  facts,  are  hereby  required  to  supply,  upon  a  form 
provided  by  the  State  Registrar  or  upon  the  original  cer- 
tificate, such  information  as  they  may  possess  regarding 
any  birth  or  death,  upon  demand  of  the  State  Registrar, 
in  person,  by  mail  or  through  the  local  registrar.  The 
State  Registrar  shall  further  arrange,  bind  and  perma- 
nently preserve  the  certificates  in  a  systematic  manner, 
and  shall  prepare  and  maintain  a  comprehensive  and 
continuous  card  index  of  all  births  and  deaths  registered;, 
said  index  to  be  arranged  alphabetically,  in  the  case  of 
deaths,  by  the  names  of  the  decedents,  and  in  the  case 
of  births,  by  the  names  of  fathers  and  mothers.  He  shall 
inform  all  registrars  what  diseases  are  to  be  considered 
infectious,  contagious  or  communicable  and  dangerous 
to  the  public  health,  as  decided  by  the  State  board  of 
health,  in  order  that  when  deaths  occur  from  such  dis- 


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eases  proper  precautions  may  be  taken  to  prevent  their 
spread. 

2089.     Duties    of    local    registrar. — That    each    local  ib.. 

Sec.  19. 

registrar  shall  supply  blank  forms  to  such  persons  as  re- 
quire them.  Each  local  registrar  shall  carefully  examine 
each  certificate  of  birth  or  death  when  presented  for 
record,  in  order  to  ascertain  whether  or  not  it  has  been 
made  out  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  this  chap- 
ter and  the  instructions  of  the  State  Registrar;  and  if  any 
certificate  of  death  is  incomplete  or  unsatisfactory  it 
shall  be  his  duty  to  call  attention  to  the  defect  in  the  re- 
turn, and  to  withhold  the  burial,  removal  or  other  permit 
until  such  defects  are  corrected.  All  certificates,  either 
of  birth  or  death,  shall  be  written  legibly  in  durable  black 
ink,  and  no  certificate  shall  be  held  to  be  complete  and 
correct  that  does  not  supply  all  of  the  items  of  informa- 
tion called  for  therein,  or  satisfactorily  account  for  their 
omission.  If  the  certificate  of  death  is  properly  executed 
and  complete  he  shall  then  issue  a  burial,  removal  or 
other  permit  to  the  undertaker  or  the  person  acting  as 
such :  Provided,  That  in  case  the  death  occurred  from 
some  disease  which  is  held  by  the  State  board  of  health 
to  be  infectious,  contagious  or  communicable  and  danger- 
ous to  the  public  health,  no  permit  for  the  removal  or 
other  disposition  of  the  body  shall  be  issued  by  the  regis- 
trar, except  under  such  conditions  as  may  be  prescribed 
by  the  State  board  of  health.  If  a  certificate  of  birth  is 
incomplete  the  local  registrar  shall  immediately  notify 
the  informant,  and  require  him  or  her  to  supply  the  miss- 
ing items  of  information  if  they  can  be  obtained.  ~  He 
shall  number  consecutively  the  certificates  of  birth  and 
death,  in  two  separate  series,  beginning  with  number  one 
for  the  first  birth  and  the  first  death  in  each  calendar 
year,  and  sign  his  name  as  registrar  in  attest  of  the  date 
of  filing  in  his  office.  He  shall  also  make  a  complete  and 
accurate  copy  of  each  birth  and  each  death  certificate 
registered  by  him  in  a  record  book  supplied  by  the  State 
Registrar,  to  be  preserved  as  the  local  record,  in  such 
manner  as  directed  by  the  State  Registrar.    And  he  shall, 


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on  the  tenth  day  of  each  month,  transmit  to  the  State 
Registrar  all  original  certificates  registered  by  him  for 
the  preceding  month.  And  if  no  births  or  no  deaths  oc- 
curred in  any  month  he  shall,  on  the  tenth  day  of  the 
following  month,  report  that  fact  to  the  State  Registrar, 
on  a  card  provided  for  such  purpose. 

lb.,  2090.     Fees  of  local  registrar. — That  each  local  regis- 

trar shall  be  paid  the  sum  of  twenty-five  cents  for  each 
birth  certificate  and  each  death  certificate  properly  and 
completely  made  out  and  registered  with  him,  and  cor- 
rectly recorded  and  promptly  returned  by  him  to  the 
State  Registrar  as  required  by  this  chapter.  And  in  case 
no  births  or  no  deaths  were  registered  during  any  month, 
the  local  registrar  shall  be  entitled  to  be  paid  the  sum  of 
twenty-five  cents  for  each  report  to  that  effect,  but  only 
if  such  report  be  made  promptly  as  required  by  this 
chapter.  All  amounts  payable  to  a  local  registrar  under 
the  provisions  of  this  Section  shall  be  from  the  funds  of 
the  State  board  of  health  upon  certification  by  the  State 
Registrar.  And  the  State  Registrar  shall  annually  cer- 
tify to  the  treasurers  of  the  several  counties  the  number 
of  births  and  deaths  properly  registered,  with  the  names 
of  the  local  registrars  and  the  amounts  due  each  at  the 
rates  fixed  herein. 

lb.,  2091.     State  Registrar,  on  request,  to  furnish  certified 

copy  of  record;  fee;  certified  records  prima  facie  evi- 
dence.— That  the  State  Registrar  shall,  upon  request, 
supply  to  any  applicant  a  certified  copy  of  the  record  of 
any  birth  or  death  registered  under  provisions  of  this 
chapter,  for  the  making  and  certification  of  which  he 
shall  be  entitled  to  a  fee  of  fifty  cents,  to  be  paid  by  the 
applicant.  And  any  copy  of  the  record  of  a  birth  or  death, 
when  properly  certified  by  the  State  Registrar,  shall  be 
prima  facie  evidence  in  all  courts  and  cases  of  the  facts 
therein  stated.  For  any  search  of  the  files  and  records 
when  no  certified  copy  is  made,  the  State  Registrar  shall 
be  entitled  to  a  fee  of  fifty  cents  for  each  hour  or  frac- 
tional part  of  an  hour  of  time  of  search,  said  fee  to  be 


lb., 
Sec.  23. 


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paid  by  the  applicant:  Provided,  That  the  State  board 
of  Health  may  waive  any  or  all  of  the  fees  required  under 
this  Section.  And  the  State  Registrar  shall  keep  a  true 
and  correct  account  of  all  fees  by  him  received  under 
these  provisions,  and  turn  the  same  over  to  the  State 
Treasurer. 

2092.  Local  registrar  charged  with  enforcement  of 
law;  must  report  all  violations. — That  each  local  regis- 
trar is  hereby  charged  with  the  strict  and  thorough  en- 
forcement of  the  provisions  of  this  chapter  in  his  regis- 
tration district,  under  the  supervision  and  direction  of 
the  State  Registrar.  And  he  shall  make  an  immediate 
report  to  the  State  Registrar  of  any  violation  of  this 
law  coming  to  his  knowledge,  by  observation  or  upon 
complaint  of  any  person,  or  otherwise. 

2093.  State  Registrar  charged  with  execution  of  law;   ib., 
duty  of  attorneys  for  the  State— The  State  Registrar  is 
hereby  charged  with  the  thorough  and  efficient  execution 

of  the  provisions  of  this  Chapter  in  every  part  of  the 
State,  and  is  hereby  granted  supervisory  power  over 
local  registrars,  deputy  registrars,  and  sub-registrars,  to 
the  end  that  all  of  its  requirements  shall  be  uniformly 
complied  with.  The  State  Registrar,  either  personally 
or  by  an  accredited  representative,  shall  have  authority 
to  investigate  cases  of  irregularity  or  violation  of  law, 
and  all  registrars  shall  aid  him,  upon  request,  in  such 
investigations.  When  he  shall  deem  it  necessary,  he 
shall  report  cases  of  violations  of  any  of  the  provisions  of 
this  Chapter  to  the  State's  Attorney,  county  solicitor  or 
county  attorney  or  other  prosecuting  officer  having 
charge  of  the  prosecution  of  misdemeanors  in  the  regis- 
tration district  in  which  such  violation  shall  occur,  with 
a  statement  of  the  facts  and  circumstances;  and  when 
any  such  case  is  reported  to  him  by  the  State  Registrar, 
the  said  prosecuting  officer  shall  forthwith  initiate  and 
promptly  follow  up  the  necessary  court  proceedings 
against  the  person  or  corporation  responsible  for  the 
alleged  violation  of  law.    And  upon  request  of  the  State 


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Registrar,  the  Attorney-General  shall  assist  in  the  en- 
forcement of  the  provisions  of  this  Chapter, 

j,3  2094.     State  Board  of  Health  given  power  to  adopt 

Sec.  24.  gjjjjj  enforce  rules. — That  the  State  Board  of  Health  shall 
have  the  power  to  adopt,  promulgate  and  enforce  rules 
and  regulations  requiring  the  notification  of  all  cases  of 
sickness  necessary  for  the  preservation  and  protection  of 
the  public  health,  and  for  the  collection  of  statistics  of 
marriages  and  divorces. 

(Penalty    for    violations    as    to    vital    statistics,    see    Sec.    5550.) 


CHAPTER  IX 

CASES   OF   CONTAGIOUS   OR   INFECTIOUS 
DISEASES 

Ch.  4695,  2095.    (1146.)     Physicians  to  report  suspicious  cases 

Acts  1899  . 

Sec.  1.  '  of  diseases. — Whenever  a  physician  or  other  person  shall 
report  a  suspicious  case  of  disease  to  the  State  Board  of 
Health  as  required  by  the  provisions  of  Section  5544  of 
the  Revised  General  Statutes  of  Florida,  he  shall  also  im- 
mediately give  notice  thereof  to  the  city  health  officer,  if 
there  be  any  health  officer,  and  if  not  to  the  mayor  of 
the  incorporated  city  or  town  in  which  the  sick  person 
may  be,  or  if  the  sick  person  resides  or  be  found  outside 
the  limits  of  a  city  or  town,  to  the  county  health  phy- 
sician or  his  representative  if  there  be  any,  and  if  not 
to  the  chairman  of  the  county  commissioners  of  the 
county  within  which  the  sick  person  may  be. 

jb^  2096.   (1147.)     Duty  of  health  officer.— It  shall  be  the 

Sec.  2.  duty  of  the  city  or  county  health  officer,  or  the  mayor,  or 
the  chairman  of  the  board  of  county  commissioners,  to 
whom  a  suspicious  case  of  disease  is  reported  in  ac- 
cordance with  the  provisions  of  the  preceding  section, 
to  take  immediate  measures  to  examine  the  case  reported, 
to  furnish  medical  attention,  food,   clothing,   and  what- 


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ever  may  be  necessary  to  care  for,  segregate  and  guard 
such  suspicious  reported  case,  in  accordance  with  the 
rules  and  regulations  of  the  State  Board  of  Health  for 
the  protection  of  the  public  health,  now  in  force,  or 
hereafter  adopted,  and  shall  manage  and  control  such 
case  or  cases  until  the  arrival  of  the  State  health  officer 
or  his  agent. 

2097.  (1148.)  Physician  to  assume  control  in  certain  ib., 
cases. — Whenever  the  State  health  officer  shall  investi- 
gate any  suspicious  case  or  cases  of  diseases,  in  accord- 
ance with  the  provisions  of  Section  2096  of  these  Revised 
General  Statutes,  and  shall  determine  that  such  disease 
is  contagious  or  infectious  and  a  menace  to  the  public 
health  of  the  citizens  of  the  State,  then  he  or  his  agent 
shall  assume  charge  and  management  of  all  and  every 
such  case  of  contagious  land  infectious  disease.  All 
necessary  and  legitimate  expenses  attendant  upon  such 
case  or  cases  of  diseases,  after  the  State  health  officer  or 
his  agent  shall  have  investigated  and  determined  the 
same  and  assumed  management  and  control,  shall  be 
paid  out  of  the  public  health  fund  of  the  State  on  vouch- 
ers approved  by  the  president  of  the  State  Board  of 
Health  as  now  provided  by  law. 

(For    ofTenses    against    health    and    quarantine    laws,    see    Sees.    5544-5548.) 


CHAPTER  X 
TUBERCULOSIS  SANATORIUM. 
2098.     State  Board  of  Health  authorized  to  create; 

Ch.  5932, 

certain  patients  required  to  pay  charges  fixed  by  board.  Acts  n 

That  the  State  Board  of  Health  is  hereby  authorized  to 
establish,  conduct  and  maintain  a  sanatorium  for  the 
treatment  of  persons  suffering  from  tuberculosis,  and 
for  that  purpose  to  receive,  hold  and  use  gifts  of  land, 
money  and  other  kinds  of  property.    That  the  said  State 


Sec.  1. 


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Board  of  Health  is  hereby  authorized  to  care  for  and 
treat  without  charge  indigent  persons  suffering  from 
tuberculosis.  That  patients  financially  able  shall  be  re- 
quired to  pay  such  charges  as  said  board  may  from  time 
to  time  establish  for  treatment  in  such  sanatorium. 

ji,.^  2099.     Board  of  Health  to  make  rules  for  manage- 

^^'^•^'  ment;  appointment  of  employees. — That  said  State  Board 
of  Health  shall  make,  promulgate  and  enforce  rules 
governing  the  management  and  conduct  of  such  sana- 
torium, and  the  care  and  control  of  inmates  thereof, 
violations  of  which  rules  shall  be  punishable  in  like  man- 
ner as  violations  of  other  rules  of  said  board  are  now 
punishable  by  law.  That  said  board  may  appoint  phy- 
sicians, nurses  and  other  employees  necessary  for  the 
maintenance,  control  and  proper  administration  of  said 
sanatorium. 

lb.,  2100.     Cost  paid  from  funds  of  State  Board  of  Health. 

Sec.  3. 

That  the  cost  and  expenses  of  establishing  and  maintain- 
ing said  sanatorium  shall  be  paid  out  of  the  funds  of  the 
said  State  Board  of  Health,  now  provided  for  by  law, 
and  from  such  funds  as  may  accrue  from  patients  finan- 
cially able  to  pay,  as  provided  for  in  this  Chapter. 


CHAPTER  Xn 

HOTELS,   RESTAURANTS,   AND    BOARDING 
HOUSES. 

Article  I 

Sanitary  Inspection  of  Hotels  and  Boarding  Houses. 

^^■^^tL  2120.  (1149.)     Examination   of   buildings,    etc.— Tne 

Acts  1899, 

Sec.  1.  State  Board  of  Health  shall  cause,  as  often  as  may  be 
necessary,  upon  information  or  complaint  of  any  person, 
or  at  the  request  of  any  town  or  city  council,  or  health 
officer,  an  examination  to  be  made  of  any  building  or 


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buildings,  and  the  premises  connected  therewith,  used 
for  board  and  lodging  of  visitors  or  other  persons,  con- 
taining ten  or  more  rooms,  such  examination  to  be  made 
by  or  under  the  supervision  of  the  State  Board  of  Health, 
or  by  persons  under  its  appointment,  as  soon  as  possible 
after  such  application  or  complaint  shall  have  been  made. 

2121.  (1150.)     Purpose  of  examination. — It  shall  be  ib.,  See.  2. 
the  purpose  in  making  such  examination,  to  ascertain  the 
source  and  sufficiency  of  the  water  supply,  the  quality 

of  the  water,  the  methods  of  removal  of  waste  water, 
slops,  excreta,  house  refuse,  garbage,  and  all  other 
putrescible  matter  of  any  kind,  the  ventilation  available, 
and  all  other  conditions  relating  to  the  health,  sanitary 
conditions  and  safety  of  said  buildings  and  premises. 
That  for  each  inspection  so  made  the  owner  or  managing 
occupant  of  the  premises  so  inspected  shall  pay  to  the 
State  Board  of  Health  the  sum  of  two  dollars,  if  premises 
are  found  to  be  in  unsanitary  condition,  which  amount 
shall  be  used  by  said  board  in  defraying  the  expense  of 
such  inspection,  and  issuing  the  certificates  hereinafter 
provided  for. 

2122.  (1151.)     State  health  officer  to  issue  certificate,   ib.,  Sec.  3. 
Upon  the  completion  of  such  inspection,  the  said  State 
Board  of  Health  shall  authorize  the  State  health  officer 

to  issue  a  certificate,  reciting  the  details  of  the  sanitary 
and  other  conditions  of  the  examined  premises,  in  accord- 
ance with  the  facts  ascertained  by  such  examination,  and 
said  certificate  shall  forthwith  be  posted  by  the  owner  or 
managing  occupant  of  such  premises  in  a  safe  and  con- 
spicuous place,  where  it  may  be  easily  seen  and  read  by 
all  persons,  guests  or  other  occupants  of  said  premises ; 
and  if  the  said  certificate  shall  become  defaced  or  de- 
stroyed, said  managing  occupant  shall  immediately  pro- 
cure a  copy  of  the  same,  which  shall  be  placed  in  a  like 
conspicuous  position,  for  which  copy  the  State  Board  of 
Health  shall  not  be  entitled  to  receive  any  fee. 

2123.  (1152.)     Duty  of  State  Board  of  Health  as  to  ib.,  sec  s. 
certain  buildings. — Whenever,  upon  an  examination  of 


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any  premises,  the  inspection  of  which  is  required  by  this 
Article,  it  shall  be  found  by  said  State  Board  of  Health 
that  the  premises  and  building  so  inspected  are  in  an  un- 
sanitary condition,  such  as  to  constitute  a  menace  to  the 
health  and  safety  of  the  occupants  thereof,  it  shall  then 
be  the  duty  of  the  said  State  Board  of  Health  to  cause 
to  be  posted  upon  some  conspicuous  place  on  said  premi- 
ses, a  written  or  printed  notice,  requiring  the  owner  or 
managing  occupant  of  said  premises,  or  both,  to  make 
such  changes  or  to  perform  or  refrain  from  the  perform- 
ance of  such  acts  as  may  be  necessary  to  place  said 
premises  in  a  sanitary  and  safe  condition  for  the  occu- 
pants thereof,  within  a  reasonable  time  to  be  fixed  by 
said  notice. 

(Penalty    for    failure   to    place   premises   in   sanitary    condition    after   notice, 
see  Sec.   5638.) 

Ch.  6953,  2153.     Kitchens    of    hotels    and    restaurants    to    be 

Acts  1915 

Sec.  1.  '  screened. — It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person,  firm  or 
corporation  to  operate  any  hotel,  boarding  house,  restau- 
rant or  lunch  counter  within  this  State  without  keeping 
all  doors,  windows  and  other  similar  openings  in  or  to 
dining  rooms,  kitchens,  or  any  other  place  where  food  is 
prepared  or  stored,  and  passage  ways  between  the  same, 
and  hallways  leading  thereto,  screened  with  wire  netting, 
with  mesh  sufficiently  close  to  prevent  the  admission  of 
flies. 

lb..  Sec.  2.  2154.     Food  exposed  for  sale  to  be  screened. — It  shall 

be  unlawful  for  any  person,  firm  or  corporation  to  sell  or 
offer  for  sale  food  for  consumption  in  the  raw  state,  or 
which  may  be  consumed  without  further  cooking,  at  any 
meat  shop,  butcher  shop,  market,  grocery  store,  fruit 
stand,  or  any  other  places  where  food  is  exposed  for  sale, 
without  having  such  food  securely  screened  by  wire  net- 
ting with  mesh  sufficiently  close  to  prevent  the  admis- 
sion of  flies. 

lb..  Sec.  3.  2155.     Dining  and  buffet  cars  to  be  screened. — It  shall 

likewise  be  unlawful  for  any  person,  firm  or  corporation 
to  operate  any  dining  or  buffet  car  within  this  State, 


lb.,  Sec.  4. 


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without  having  all  doors,  windows  and  other  similar 
openings  to  the  same  securely  screened  with  wire  netting 
with  mesh  sufficiently  close  to  prevent  the  admission 
of  flies. 

2156.  Duty  of  owners,  tenants  and  operators  to  keep 
flies  out. — It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  owner,  tenant,  opera- 
tor or  person  in  charge  of  any  of  the  foregoing  described 
hotels,  boarding  houses,  restaurants,  lunch  counters, 
meat  shops,  butcher  shops,  grocery  stores,  fruit  stands, 
dining  rooms,  kitchens,  dining  or  buffet  cars,  lunch 
counters  and  other  places,  to  keep  all  flies  out  of  the  said 
places  so  far  as  may  be  possible. 

(Penalty  for  violation  of  regulations  as  to  screening  hotels,  places  where 
food  is  exposed,  and  dining  cars,  see  Sec.  5642.) 


CHAPTER  XIII 
NUISANCES  INJURIOUS  TO  HEALTH. 

2157.    (1153.)     What  constitutes  a  sanitary  nuisance. 

A  sanitary  nuisance  is  hereby  declared  to  be  the  commis-  sea  i.^^^' 
sion  of  any  act,  by  an  individual,  municipality,  organiza- 
tion or  corporation,  or  the  keeping,  maintaining,  propaga- 
tion, existence  or  permission  of  anything,  by  an  indivi- 
dual, municipality,  organization  or  corporation,  by  which 
the  health  or  life  of  an  individual,  or  the  health  or  lives 
of  individuals,  may  be  threatened  or  impaired,  or  by 
which  or  through  which,  directly  or  indirectly,  disease 
may  be  caused. 

Inferential  and  consequential  damage  to  private  property  arising  out  of 
health  laws  does  not  violate  the  Federal  Constitution.  Logan  v.  Childs,  51  Fla. 
233,  41    So.   197. 


Ch.  4346, 


2158.  (1154.)  Duty  of  State  Health  Officer.— It  shall 
be  the  duty  of  the  State  Health  Officer,  upon  request  of 
the  proper  authorities,  or  of  any  three  responsible  resi- 
dent citizens,  or  whenever  it  may  seem  necessary  to  the 
president  of  the  State  Board  of  Health,  or  to  the  State 
Health  Officer  himself,  to  investigate  the  sanitary  con- 


Ib., 
Sec.  11. 


Sec.  12. 


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dition  of  any  city,  town  or  place  in  the  State  of  Florida ; 
and  if,  upon  examination,  the  State  Health  Officer  shall 
ascertain  the  existence  of  any  sanitary  nuisance  as  herein 
defined,  it  shall  be  his  duty  to  serve  notice  upon  the 
proper  party  or  parties  to  remove  or  abate  the  said 
nuisance  or  if  necessary  to  proceed  to  remove  or  abate 
the  said  nuisance  in  the  manner  provided  in  Section  5624. 

lb.,  2159.(1155.)     Ibid.— It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  State 

Health  Officer,  upon  receiving  information  or  obtaining 
knowledge  of  the  existence  of  anything  or  things  herein 
declared  to  be  nuisances  by  law,  to  notify  the  person  or 
persons  committing,  creating,  keeping  or  maintaining  the 
same,  to  remove  or  cause  to  be  removed,  the  same,  with- 
in twenty-four  hours,  or  such  other  reasonable  time  as 
may  be  determined  by  the  State  Board  of  Health,  after 
such  notice  be  duly  given ;  and  if  the  same  is  not  removed 
by  such  person  or  persons  within  the  time  prescribed  in 
said  notice,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  State  Health  Officer 
to  remove,  or  cause  to  be  removed,  such  nuisance  or 
nuisances,  and  the  cost  or  expenses  of  such  removal  shall 
be  paid  by  the  person  or  persons  committing,  creating, 
keeping  or  maintaining  such  nuisances ;  and  if  the  said 
costs  and  expenses  thus  accruing  shall  not  be  paid  within 
ten  days  after  such  removal,  the  same  shall  be  collected 
from  the  person  or  persons  committing,  creating,  keep- 
ing or  maintaining  such  nuisances,  by  suit  at  law. 

(Penalties    concerning    nuisances,    see    Sees.     5624-5639.) 


CHAPTER  XIV 
UNDERGROUND  WATERS  OF  THE  STATE 

2160.     The  term  "underground  waters  o£  the  State" 
Acts  1913,     defined. — That    the    term    "underground    waters    of    the 
State,"  when  used  in  this  chapter,  shall  include  all  under- 
ground  streams    and   springs   and   underground   waters 
within  the  borders  of  the  State  of  Florida,  whether  flow- 


Ch.  6443, 


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ing  in  underground  channels  or  passing  through  the  pores 
of  the  rocks. 

2161.  Draining  surface  water  or  sewerage,  without  ib.,  See.  2. 
permit,  in  underground  waters  of  the  State  prohibited. — 

No  municipal  corporation,  private  corporation,  person  or 
persons  within  the  State  shall  use  any  cavity,  sink,  driven 
or  drilled  well  now  in  existence,  or  sink  any  new  well 
within  the  corporate  limits,  or  within  five  miles  of  the 
corporate  limits,  of  any  incorporated  city  or  town,  or 
within  any  unincorporated  city,  town  or  village,  or  with- 
in five  miles  thereof,  for  the  purpose  of  draining  any  sur- 
face water  or  discharging  any  sewerage  into  the  under- 
ground waters  of  the  State,  without  first  obtaining  a 
written  permit  from  the  State  Board  of  Health. 

2162.  Revocation  of  permits;  permits  to  be  filed  with  ib.,  See.  3. 
clerk. — Every  such  permit  for  the  discharge  of  sewerage, 

or  surface  water,  shall  be  revocable  or  subject  to 
modification  or  change  by  the  State  Board  of  Health,  on 
due  notice,  after  an  investigation  and  hearing,  and  an 
opportunity  for  all  interests  and  persons  interested  there- 
in to  be  heard  thereon ;  said  notice  or  notices  being 
served  on  the  person  or  persons  owning,  maintaining  or 
using  the  well,  cavity  or  sink,  and  by  publication  for  two 
weeks  in  a  newspaper  published  in  the  county  in  which 
said  well,  cavity  or  sink  is  located.  The  length  of  time 
after  the  receipt  of  the  notice  within  which  it  shall  be 
discontinued  may  be  stated  in  the  permit.  All  such  per- 
mits, before  becoming  operative,  shall  be  filed  in  the 
office  of  the  clerk  of  the  circuit  court  of  the  county  in 
which  such  permit  has  been  granted. 

2163.  The  term   "sewerage"   defined. — For  the  pur-  ib.,  Sec.  4. 
pose  of  this  chapter,  sewerage  shall  be  defined  as  any 
substance   that   contains   any  of   the  waste   products   or 
excrementitious  or  other  discharge  from  the  bodies  of 
human  beings  or  animals. 

2164.  Sewerage  or  surface  drainage  in  underground  ib- Sec.  s. 
waters  to  be  discontinued. — Every  individual,  municipal 


Ch.  6891, 
Acts  1915, 
Sec.  1. 


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corporation,  private  corporation  or  company  shall  dis- 
continue the  discharge  within  the  corporate  limits  or 
within  five  miles  of  the  corporate  limits  of  any  incorpo- 
rated city  or  town,  or  within  any  unincorporated  city, 
town  or  village  or  within  five  miles  thereof,  of  sewerage 
or  surface  drainage  into  any  of  the  underground  waters 
of  the  State  within  ten  days  after  having  been  so  ordered 
by  the  State  Board  of  Health. 

(Penalty  for  discharging  sewerage   in  underground  waters  see   Sec.   5525.) 


CHAPTER  XV 

DISPENSING  AND    SALE   OF   HABIT   FORMING 

DRUGS. 

2165.  Unlawful  to  sell  certain  drugs  except  on 
authorized  prescription;  form  of  prescription. — It  shall 
be  unlawful  for  any  pharmacist,  druggist,  apothecary  or 
other  person,  firm  or  corporation  doing  business  in  which 
drugs,  medicines  or  poisons  are  retailed  or  physicians' 
prescriptions  are  compounded  or  dispensed,  to  sell  at  re- 
tail any  opium  or  coca  leaves  or  any  compound,  manu- 
facture, salt  derivative  or  preparation  thereof,  except 
upon  the  written  prescription  of  a  duly  licensed  phy- 
sician or  of  a  dentist  or  a -veterinary  surgeon,  and  except 
as  hereinafter  provided.  Such  prescription  shall  con- 
tain the  name  and  address  of  the  person  for  whom  it  is 
written,  the  exact  amount  of  any  of  the  above  named 
drugs  or  substances  to  be  given,  and  the  signature  of  the 
physician  writing  it.  No  pharmacist,  druggist,  apothe- 
cary or  other  person,  firm  or  corporation  shall  sell,  dis- 
pense or  otherwise  furnish  more  or  less  of  any  of  the  be- 
fore mentioned  drugs,  compounds  or  mixtures  than  the 
amount  set  forth  in  such  prescription.  Every  such  pre- 
scription shall  contain  the  date  upon  which  it  shall  have 
been  filled,  and  a  serial  number.  Such  prescription  shall 
be  filled  but  once,  and  no  copy  shall  be  given  to  any 


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person,  except  that  a  copy  may  be  taken  by  any  officer  or 
agent  of  the  State  Board  of  Health,  the  local  board  of 
health  or  of  the  law. 

2166.  Preparations,    not    included,    as    prohibited. —   ib.,  Sec.  2. 
That  the  provisions  of  this  chapter  shall  not  be  construed 

to  apply  to  the  sale,  distribution,  giving  away,  dispensing 
or  possession  of  preparations  and  remedies  which  do  not 
contain  more  than  two  grains  of  opium,  or  more  than 
one-fourth  grain  of  morphine,  or  more  than  one-eighth 
grain  of  heroin,  or  more  than  one  grain  of  codeine,  or  any 
salt  or  derivative  of  any  of  them  in  one  fluid  ounce,  or,  if 
a  solid  or  semi-solid  preparation,  in  one  avoirdupois 
ounce;  or  to  liniments,  ointments  or  other  preparations 
which  are  prepared  for  external  use  only,  except  lini- 
ments, ointments  and  other  preparations  which  contain 
cocaine  or  any  of  its  salts,  or  alpha  or  beta-  cocaine  or 
any  of  their  salts  or  any  synthetic  substitute  for  them : 
Provided,  That  such  remedies  and  preparations  are  sold, 
distributed,  given  away,  dispensed  or  possessed  as  medi- 
cines and  not  for  the  purpose  of  evading  the  intentions 
and  provisions  of  this  chapter.  The  provisions  of  this 
chapter  shall  not  apply  to  decocanized  coca  leaves  or 
preparations  made  therefrom  or  to  other  preparations  of 
coca  leaves  which  do  not  contain  cocaine. . 

2167.  Physicians,  dentists,  veterinary  surgeons  may  ib.,  Sec :. 
administer  such  drugs  under  certain  regulations, — Any 

duly  licensed  physician,  a  dentist  or  veterinary  surgeon, 
may  prescribe,  dispense  or  administer  any  of  the  before- 
mentioned  drugs  or  preparations  or  their  derivatives  for 
the  treatment  or  cure  of  diseases  in  the  course  of  their 
professional  practice :  Provided,  That  such  physician, 
dentist  or  veterinary  surgeon  shall  not  prescribe,  dispense 
or  furnish  any  of  the  before  mentioned  drugs  to  any  per- 
sons who  may  be  addicted  to  the  habitual  use  of  these 
drugs  or  any  of  their  derivatives  or  preparations,  ex- 
cept that  a  duly  licensed  physician  may,  for  the  cure  of 
such  habit  or  addiction,  prescribe  or  administer  these 
drugs  in  reducing  doses  to  an  habitual  user  while  per- 


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sonally  supervising'  and  controlling  such  habitual  user 
and  treating  him  or  her  for  the  habit  or  addiction  afore- 
said. In  the  event  that  any  such  case  of  habitual  user 
of  any  of  the  drugs  mentioned  in  Section  2165  shall  prove 
refractory  or  unusually  difficult  of  treatment,  it  shall  be 
the  duty  of  the  physician  treating  such  case  to  report 
the  fact  to  the  State  Board  of  Health,  the  local  board  of 
health  or  to  the  county  judge.  It  shall  also  be  the  duty 
of  any  physician  treating  any  such  case  of  drug  addiction 
to  report  such  case  to  the  State  Board  of  Health,  the 
local  board  of  health  or  to  the  county  judge  in  the  event 
that  such  patient  shall  not  pursue  his  treatment  in  good 
faith  until  final  cure :  Provided,  That  nothing  in  this 
section  shall  prevent  the  prescribing,  by  a  duly  licensed 
physician,  of  opium  or  any  of  its  derivatives  or  prepara- 
tions for  such  habitual  users  or  addicts  as  may  be  de- 
clared incurable  after  investigation  by  the  county  judge 
and  an  agent  of  the  State  Board  of  Health,  or  of  a  munici- 
pal health  officer,  in  and  after  consultation  with  the  phy- 
sician in  attendance. 

lb.,  Sec.  4.  2168.     Refractory  cases;  duty  of  prosecuting  officers. 

and  5. 

In  the  event  that  such  refractory  or  difficult  or  uncured 
case  be  brought  to  the  attention  of  the  authorities  men- 
tioned in  Section  2167,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  authori- 
ties to  bring  such  case  to  the  official  attention  of  the  prose- 
cuting officer  of  the  county. 

It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  prosecuting  officers  of  each 
county  to  prosecute  each  offender  against  this  chapter 
w^hen  duly  brought  to  his  notice. 

(Penalty    for    unlawful    sale    of    habit-forming    drugs,    see    Sec.    5533.) 


CHAPTER  XXVII 


EMBALMERS. 


2257.     State  board  of  embalming;  how  constituted. — 

Acts  ^1917,    j^  board  is  hereby  created  and  established,  which  shall 


Ch.  7395, 


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be  known  under  the  name  of  the  State  Board  of  Em- 
balmmg. 

2258.  Appointment   of  board;   by  whom   composed,   ib.,  Sec.  2. 
and  how  appointed. — The  board  shall  consist  of  the  State 
Health  officer  and  four  members  to  be  appointed  by  the 
Governor.     Provided,  no  person  shall  be  eligible  to  ap- 
pointment as  a  member  of  said  board  of  embalming  who 

has  not  been  engaged  in  the  business  of,  and  practiced  em- 
balming in  this  State  for  a  period  of  at  least  five  years 
preceding  said  appointment. 

2259.  Term  of  office. — The  term  of  office  of  each  ib.,  Sec.  3. 
member  of  said  board  shall  be  four  years,  except  the 
members  of  the  first  board  to  be  appointed  under  this 
chapter,  who  shall  serve  one,  two,  three  and  four  years, 
respectively,  and  until  his  successor  is  appointed  and 
qualified. 

2260.  Oath  o£  office. — Each  member  of  said  board  ib.,  See.  4. 
shall,  before  entering  upon  his  duties  take  before  some 
person  competent  to  administer  oaths,  an  oath  to  faith- 
fully perform  the  duties  of  his  office,  and  that  he  is  legally 
qualified  to  become  a  member  of  said  board,  under  the 
provisions  of  this  chapter. 

2261.  Organization. — The  said  board  of  embalming  ib.,  See  3. 
shall  within  thirty  days  after  having  been  appointed  and 
qualified,  meet  at  Jacksonville  and  organize,  by  electing 

from  its  number  a  president,  and  secretary  and  treasurer 
thereof  and  it  shall  meet  from  time  to  time  thereafter 
at  such  place  and  as  often  as  may  be  found  to  be  neces- 
sary. 

2262.  Time  and  place  of  meeting. — The  president  of   ib.,  Sec.  6. 
said  State  Board  of  Embalming  shall  have  the  power  to 

call  a  meeting  of  said  board  at  any  time,  and  at  such 
place  as  he  may  designate. 

2263.  Quorum. — A  majority  of  said  board  shall  at  ib.,  sec  7. 
all  times  constitute  a  quorum. 


lb., 

Sec.  10 


Sec.  11. 


64 

lb..  Sec.  8.  2264.     Seal. — Said  board  shall  provide  itself  with  a 

suitable  seal. 

lb.,  Sec.  9.  2265.     Preservation  of  records. — The  records  of  said 

board  shall  be  kept  at  the  office  of  the  secretary  and  treas- 
urer, who  shall  give  such  bond  as  the  board  shall  deem 
necessary. 

2266.  Board  to  make  and  publish  rules. — It  shall  be 
the  duty  of  said  board  of  embalming"  to  formulate  and 
adopt  rules,  regulations  and  by-laws,  not  inconsistent 
with  the  law  of  this  State  or  the  United  States  whereby 
the  duties  of  said  board  can  be  performed  and  the  prac- 
tice of  embalming  dead  human  bodies  regulated. 

lb.,  2267.     Licenses  and  so  forth. — Every  person  desiring 

to  engage  in  the  practice  of  embalming  dead  human 
bodies,  within  the  State  of  Florida  shall  make  a  written 
application  to  the  secretary  of  the  State  Board  of  Em- 
balming for  a  license,  accompanying  same  with  a 
license  fee  of  an  amount  not  exceeding  twenty-five  dol- 
lars, whereupon  the  applicant  as  aforesaid  shall  present 
himself  or  herself  before  said  board  at  a  time  and  place 
to  be  fixed  by  said  board,  and  if  the  said  board  shall  find 
upon  due  examination  that  the  applicant  is  of  good 
moral  character,  and  not  addicted  to  the  excessive  use  of 
alcoholic  or  narcotic  drugs,  possessed  of  the  skill  and 
knowledge  of  said  science  of  embalming  and  the  care  and 
disposition  of  the  dead,  and  has  a  reasonable  knowledge 
of  sanitation  and  the  disinfection  of  bodies  of  deceased 
persons  and  the  apartments,  clothing  and  bedding,  in 
case  of  death  from  infectious,  contagious  or  other  com- 
municable disease,  shall  issue  to  said  applicant  a  license 
to  practice  embalming  and  shall  register  such  applicant 
as  a  duly  licensed  embalmer.  Such  license  shall  be 
signed  by  the  majority  of  the  board  and  attested  by  its 
seal,  and  all  persons  receiving  a  license  under  the  pro- 
visions of  this  chapter  shall  register  the  fact  at  the  office 
of  the  clerk  of  the  court  in  each  and  every  county  in 
which  he  may  thereafter  locate,  and  with  the  local  dis- 
trict registrar  in  whose  district  he  may  practice  his  pro- 


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fession :  Provided,  further,  That  no  embalmer  shall  be 
considered  eligible  for  licensure  who  had  not  had  at  least 
two  years'  experience  under  a  licensed  embalmer, 

2268.  Certificates  of  former  practitioners. — All  practi-  ib., 
tioners  who  have  been  engaged  in  the  practice  of  embalm- 
ing in  this  State  prior  to  the  21st  day  of  May,  1917,  under 

a  license  issued  by  the  State  board  of  health,  shall  be 
granted  by  the  State  Board  of  Embalming  a  certificate  of 
licensure  without  further  examination  and  expense. 

2269.  Renewal    of    Registration. — Every    registered  ib., 
embalmer  who   desires  to  continue  the  practice  of   his 
profession,  shall  annually  thereafter  during  the  time  he 
shall  continue  in  such  practice,  on  such   dates  as  said 
board  may  determine,  pay  to  the  secretary  of  said  board 

a  fee  of  two  dollars  for  the  renewal  of  registration. 

2270.  Compensation  of  members  of  board  and  other  ib., 

^  Sec.  14. 

expenses. — All  expenses,  salary  and  per  diem  of  mem- 
bers of  said  board  shall  be  defrayed  from  fees  received 
under  the  provision  of  this  chapter,  and  shall  in  no  man- 
ner be  an  expense  to  the  State. 

2271.  Limitations    of    Act. — Nothing   in    this    chap-  ib., 
ter  shall  apply  to  or  in  any  manner  interfere  with  the 
duties  of  any  officers  of  local  or  State  institution,  or  shall 
this  chapter  apply  to  any  person  engaged  simply  in  the 
furnishing  of  burial  receptacles  for  the  dead  and  burying 

of  the  dead  and  not  embalming. 

2272.  Revocation    of    license. — Any    embalmer    who  se'c.  i7. 
shall   violate   the  provisions   of  this   chapter  may   have 

his  license  revoked  at  the  discretion  of  this  board. 


5543 


(Penalty   for    practicing    embalming    without    complying    with    law,    see    Sec. 


Ch.  6133, 


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CHAPTER  XXIX 

HOSPITAL    FOR    INDIGENT    CRIPPLED     CHIL- 
DREN. 

2292.     State  Board  of  Health  authorized  to  establish 


Sec^L^^^'  hospital  for  indigent  crippled  children. — That  the  State 
Board  of  Health  be,  and  it  is  hereby  authorized  and  di- 
■  rected  to  establish  at  some  suitable  and  convenient  loca- 
tion in  this  State  a  hospital  for  the  treatment  of  indigent 
crippled  children  of  this  State.  In  such  hospital  indigent 
crippled  children  of  this  State  shall  be  received  and 
treated  free  of  charge. 

lb.,  Sec.  2.  2293.     Authorized  to  purchase  site  and  erect  build- 

ings; purchase  of  equipment;  appropriation  from  Board 
of  Health  fund. — That  for  the  purposes  of  Section  2292 
hereof  the  State  Board  of  Health  is  hereby  authorized  to 
purchase  a  plot  of  ground  and  erect  thereon  a  building 
suitable  for  such  purpose,  or  to  purchase  a  plot  of  ground 
with  building  already  erected,  in  its  discretion.  For 
such  purchase  and  for  the  purchase  of  suitable  instru- 
ments, apparatus,  furniture,  fixtures  and  other  articles 
necessary  for  such  an  institution,  the  sum  of  twenty 
thousand  dollars,  or  so  much  thereof  as  may  be  found 
necessary,  is  hereby  appropriated,  payable  from  the  State 
Board  of  Health  fund. 

lb.,  Sec.  3.  2294.     State  Board  of  Health  authorized  to  arrange 

with  private  hospital  for  care  of  crippled  children. — That 
until  the  number  of  indigent  crippled  children,  citizens 
of  the  State  of  Florida,  shall  be  sufficient  in  number  to 
warrant  the  State  Board  of  Health  to  erect  and  maintain 
an  institution  of  this  character  and  nature,  that  the  State 
Board  of  Health  is  authorized  to  arrange  with  any  sani- 
tarium or  hospital  in  Florida  to  care  for  and  treat  the 
indigent  crippled  and  deformed  children  of  the  State  and 
to  pay  for  such  treatment  out  of  the  funds  of  the  State 
Board  of  Health,  not  in  excess  of  the  amount  appropri- 
ated by  this  Act. 


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Article  19. 

ABATEMENT  OF  NUISANCES 

3223.  Bill  maintained  in  name  of  State ;  parties  de-   ch.  ii(>i, 

^cts  1917 

fendant. — Whenever  any  nuisance  as  defined  in  Section  sec.  2.  ' 
5639  is  kept,  maintained  or  exists  the  State's  Attorney, 
county  solicitor,  county  prosecutor,  or  any  citizen  of  the 
county  through  any  attorney  he  may  select,  may  main- 
tain his  action  by  bill  in  chancery  in  the  proper  court  in 
the  name  of  the  State  of  Florida  upon  the  relation  of  such 
attorneys  or  citizen  to  enjoin  said  nuisance,  the  person, 
or  persons  conducting  or  maintaining  the  same  and  the 
owner  or  agent  of  the  building  or  ground  upon  which 
said  nuisance  exists. 

3224.  Temporary  injunction. — In  such  action  the  j^, 
court,  judge  or  court  commissioner  before  whom  the  bill 
may  be  brought  may  upon  proper  proof  being  made, 
allow  a  temporary  writ  of  injunction  without  bond,  if  it 
shall  appear  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  court  or  judge  or 
commissioner  by  evidence  or  by  affidavit  that  a  tem- 
porary injunction  shall  issue.    At  least  three  days'  notice 

in  writing  shall  be  given  defendant  or  defendants  of  the 
time  and  place  of  application  for  said  temporary  injunc- 
tion. 

3225.  Answer   or   demurrer;   evidence;   rule   of   evi-  ib.,  Sec.  3. 
dence;  costs  in  certain  cases. — The  defendant  shall  file 

his  answer  or  demurrer  to  said  bill  of  complaint  within 
twenty  days  after  service  of  process  and  the  said  cause 
shall  thereafter  proceed  as  the  court  may  order;  and  it 
shall  be  the  duty  of  the  court  to  hear  the  evidence  in 
open  court  or  by  an  examiner  as  it  shall  deem  most  ex- 
pedient for  a  prompt  hearing  or  disposition  of  the  cause. 
In  such  actions  evidence  of  the  general  reputation  of  the 
alleged  nuisance  and  place  shall  be  admissible  for  the 
purpose  of  proving  the  existence  of  said  nuisance.  No 
bill  of  complaint  when  filed  by  any  citizen  shall  be  dis- 
missed except  upon  a  sworn  statement  made  by  said 
citizen  and  submitted  to  the  court  and  unless  the  court 


lb.,  Sec.  4. 


shall  be  satisfied  that  said  cause  shall  be  dismissed,  the 
said  bill  shall  not  be  dismissed  but  shall  continue  and 
the  State  Attorney  or  county  solicitor  notified  to  pro- 
ceed with  said  cause.  If  said  action  is  brought  by  any 
citizen  and  the  court  shall  find  that  there  was  no  reason- 
able ground  for  said  action  the  costs  of  said  action  shall 
be  taxed  against  said  citizen  and  execution  may  issue 
therefor  on  order  of  the  court. 

3226.  On  final  hearing  court  may  issue  perpetual 
injunction;  costs. — Upon  final  hearing  of  said  cause  the 
court  shall  if  the  allegations  of  said  bill  are  proved  and 
the  existence  of  a  nuisance  is  shown  shall  issue  a  per- 
petual injunction  in  said  cause  and  shall  order  the  costs 
of  said  proceeding  to  be  paid  by  the  persons  responsible 
for  establishing  or  maintaining  said  nuisance  and  shall 
adjudge  that  said  costs  shall  become  a  lien  upon  all 
personal  property  found  in  the  house  or  place  of  the 
nuisance  and  upon  the  failure  of  said  property  and  fix- 
tures to  bring  enough  to  pay  said  costs,  then  upon  the 
real  estate  and  buildings  occupied  by  said  nuisance,  pro- 
vided no  lien  shall  attach  to  the  real  estate  and  build- 
ings of  any  other  than  the  occupant  unless  five  days' 
written  notice  shall  have  been  given  to  the  owner  or  his 
agent  who  shall  fail  to  abate  said  nuisance  within  said 
five  days.  If  the  owner  or  claimant  pays  said  costs  of 
proceedings  said  property,  personal  and  real,  shall  by 
court  order  be  released  from  the  lien  for  costs  upon  the 
owner  or  claimant  giving  bond  with  proper  surety  for 
payment  of  costs  and  that  said  property  shall  no  longer 
constitute  a  nuisance  or  be  used  in  furtherance  of  any 
similar  nuisance  for  one  year  from  the  date  of  said  decree. 

lb.,  Sec.  5.  3227.     Order  and  decrees;  enforcement  by  contempt 

proceedings. — The  courts  of  chancery  in  this  State  shall 
upon  proper  proof  make  such  orders  and  decrees  as  will 
suppress  and  abate  any  and  all  nuisances  mentioned  in 
Section  5639  and  shall  have  the  authority  to  enforce  in- 
junctions and  decrees  by  proper  contempt  proceedings, 
but  the  jurisdiction  hereby  granted  to  said  courts  of  chan- 


69 

eery  shall   not   be  construed   to   repeal   or  alter   Section 
5624,  or  Section  5497. 


CHAPTER  VIII 

OFFENSES  AGAINST  MORALITY  AND  DECENCY 

ARTICLE  I 

Adultery  and  Fornication 

5406.  (3518.)     Living    in    open    adultery. — Whoever  ch.  i986, 
lives  in  an  open  state  of  adultery  shall  be  punished  by  ActsV874. 
imprisonment   in   the    State   prison    not    exceeding   two 
years,  or  in  the  county  jail  not  exceeding  one  year,  or 

by  fine  not  exceeding  five  hundred  dollars.  Where  either 
of  the  parties  living  in  an  open  state  of  adultery  is  mar- 
ried, both  parties  so  living  shall  be  deemed  to  be  guilty 
of  the  offense  provided  for  in  this  section. 

As  to  evidence  of  acts  anterior  to  time  laid.     Brevaldo  v  State,  21  Fla.  789. 

Where  there  was  no  evidence  of  a  living  in  an  open  state  of  adultery 
within  the  limited  period  charged,  the  single  act  of  intercourse  between 
the  parties  anterior  to  such  time  is  not  admissible  to  convict  of  an  offense 
committed  between   such   periods.     Woodson  v  State,   62   Fla.    106,   57   So.   174. 

An  information  under  this  section  is  fatally  defective  where  it  does 
not  allege  that  the  defendants  lived  in  an  open  state  of  adultery.  Teston  v 
State,  66  Fla.   244,   63   So.  433. 

5407.  (3519.)     Lewd  and  lascivious  behavior. — If  any   ch.  i637, 

man  and  woman,  not  being  married  to  each  other,  lewdly  Sec  6, ' 
and  lasciviously  associate  and  cohabit  together,  or  if  any 
man  or  woman,  married  or  unmarried,  is  guilty  of  open 
and  gross  lewdness  and  lascivious  behavior,  they  shall 
be  punished  by  imprisonment  in  the  State  prison  not  ex- 
ceeding two  years,  or  in  the  county  jail  not  exceeding 
one  year,  or  by  fine  not  exceeding  three  hundred  dollars. 

Purpose  of  section  stated.  What  necessary  to  constitute  the  crime. 
Luster  v  State,  23  Fla.  339,  2  So.  690. 

In  order  to  convict  under  this  section  the  evidence  must  show  that  the 
defendants  were  not  married  to  each  other,  and  that  they  lived  together  as 
husband  and  wife.     Pinson  v  State,   28  Fla.   735,  9   So.   706. 

In  the  offense  of  lewd  and  lascivious  association  and  cohabitation,  there 
is  included  both  lewd  and  lascivious  intercourse  and  a  living  or  dwelling  to- 
gether as  if  the  conjugal  relation  existed  between  the  parties.  Pinson  v  State, 
28  Fla.  735,  9  So.  706;  Thomas  v  State,  39  Fla.  437,  22  So.  725;  Penton  v 
State,  42  Fla.   560,  28  So.  774;  Whitehead  v  State,  48  Fla.   64,  37   So.  302. 

In  order  to  convict  of  the  offense  and  of  lewdly  and  lasciviously  asso- 
ciating and  cohabiting  together,  the   evidence  must   show  a  dwelling  or  living 


Acts  1868. 


70 


Ibid. 

lb.,  Sec.  8. 


Ch.  4965, 
Acts  1901, 
Sec.  1, 
amended 
by  Ch. 
6974,  Acts 
1915,  Sec. 
1,  as 

amended 
by  Ch. 
7732,  Acts 
1918,  Sec. 
1. 


Ch.  5909, 
June  7, 
1909. 
Sec.  1. 


together  by  the  parties  as  if  the  conjugal  relation  existed.  A  single  or  mere 
occasional  acts  of  incontinency  are  insufficient  to  sustain,  the  charge.  Penton 
V  State,  42  Fla  560,  28  So.  774 

To  convict  of  the  crime  of  lewd  and  lascivious  cohabitation,  under  this 
section,  there  must  be  proved  both  lewd  and  lascivious  intercourse,  and  a 
living  or  dwelling  together  openly  as  husband  and  wife.  Whitehead  v  State, 
48  Fla.   64,   Zl   So.   302;   Cloud  v  State,   64  Fla.   237,   60   So.   180. 

When  the  evidence  shows  a  lewd  and  lascivious  intercourse,  but  does 
not  show  that  the  parties  associated  and  cohabited  together  as  man  and  wife, 
a  conviction  should  not  be  sustained.     Cloud  v  State,  64  Fla.  237,  60  So.   180. 

In  a  prosecution  based  under  this  section  the  open  lewdness  and  lascivi- 
ous behavior  must  be  such  conduct  as  would  bring  upon  a  husband  and  wife 
the  penalty   of  the  statute.     Pitchford  v   State,   65   Fla.   146,   61    So.   243. 

5408.  (3520.)  Fornication. — If  any  man  commits 
fornication  with  a  woman,  each  of  them  shall  be  punished 
by  imprisonment  not  exceeding  three  months,  or  by  fine 
not  exceeding  thirty  dollars. 

5409.  (3521.)  Carnal  intercourse  with  unmarried 
female  under  eighteen  years. — That  any  male  person  who 
has  unlawful  carnal  intercourse  with  any  unmarried 
female  person  of  previous  chaste  character,  who  is  at  the 
time  of  such  intercourse,  under  the  age  of  eighteen 
years,  shall  be  punished  by  imprisonment  in  the  State 
penitentiary  not  more  than  ten  years,  or  by  fine  not  ex- 
ceeding two  thousand  dollars. 

See  Hogan  v  State,  50  Fla.  86,  39  So.  464;  Walden  v  State,  50  Fla.  151, 
39    So.    151. 

The  mother  of  one  whose  age  is  a  material  fact  in  a  criminal  prosecution 
who  knows  her  age  independently  of  any  record  thereof,  may  be  permitted 
to  testify  to   her   age.      Carter   v   State,   68    Fla.    143,    66   So.    1000. 

In  a  prosecution  under  this  section,  no  error  is  committed  in  permitting 
the  prosecuting  witness  to  testify,  over  objections  upon  the  sole  ground  that 
such  witness   held   an   infant  child  upon   her  lap   or  in   her  arms.      lb. 

In  a  prosecution  under  this  section  for  an  offense  committed  prior  to 
the  enactment  of  chapter  6974,  acts  of  1915,  it  is  not  error  to  charge  the  jury 
that  the  previous  chaste  character  of  the  prosecuting  witness  is  not  in  issue. 
Gorey  v  State,  71   Fla.   195,  71   So.   328. 

In  a  prosecution  for  the  statutory  offense  of  having  carnal  intercourse 
with  an  unmarried  female  under  the  age  of  eighteen,  proo'f  that  the  female 
was  unmarried  is  essential  to  a  conviction.  Watson  v  State,  72  Fla.  16,  72 
So.   370. 

In  a  criminal  prosecution  for  carnal  intercourse  with  an  unmarried  female 
under  the  age  of  eighteen  years  the  following  charge  is  not  erroneous:  "To 
constitute  carnal  intercourse  there  must  have  been  actual  contact  of  the  male 
organ  with  the  female  organ  resulting  in  penetration  of  the  female  by  the 
male  organ  to  some  extent,  but  not  necessarily  to  the  extent  of  puncturing  the 
hymen.  It  is  also  unnecessary  for  the  State  to  prove  emission  of  seed." 
Harris  v   State,   72   Fla.    128,    72   So.   520. 

5410.  Carnal  intercourse  with  unmarried  female 
idiot. — That  any  male  person  who  has  carnal  intercourse 
with  an  unmarried  female,  with  or  without  her  consent, 
who  is  at  the  time  an  idiot,  lunatic  or  imbecile,  shall  be 
deemed  guilty  of  a  felony,  and,  on  conviction,  shall  be 
punished  by  imprisonment  in  the  State  prison  at  hard 


Ch.  1637, 


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labor  for  not  exceeding  ten  years,  in  the  discretion  of  the 
court. 


ARTICLE  2. 
Enticing  Away  Unmarried  Women. 

5411.  (3522.)     Enticing    away    for    clandestine    mar- 
riage.— Whoever    fraudulently    and    deceitfully    entices  lec.'ij'^'  ^' 
away   an   unmarried   female,   under   the   age   of   sixteen  ^^^^  ^^^^• 
years,  from  her  father's  house,  or  wherever  else  she  may 

be  found,  without  the  consent  of  the  parent,  guardian 
or  master,  if  any,  under  whose  care  and  custody  she  is 
living,  for  the  purpose  of  effecting  a  clandestine  mar- 
riage of  such  female  without  such  consent,  shall  be 
punished  by  imprisonment  in  the  State  prison  not  exceed- 
ing one  year,  or  by  fine  not  exceeding  one  thousand 
dollars. 

The  inducing  of  an  unmarried  female  under  the  age  of  sixteen  years  to 
leave  her  home,  without  the  consent  of  her  parents,  for  the  purpose  of  effect- 
ing a  marriage,  so  long  as  no  deceit  or  fraud  is  practiced  upon  her,  does  not 
constitute  the  offense  set  forth  in  this  section.  Hay  v  State,  68  Fla.  458,  67 
So.   107. 

5412.  (3523.)     Enticing  away  for  prostitution. — Who- 
ever fraudulently  and  deceitfully  entices  or  takes  away  ib.,  See  2. 
an  unmarried  woman,  of  a  chaste  life  and  conversation, 

from  her  father's  house,  or  wherever  else  she  may  be 
found,  for  the  purpose  of  prostitution  at  a  house  of  ill- 
fame,  assignation  or  elsewhere,  and  whoever  aids  and 
assists  in  such  abduction  for  such  purpose,  shall  be 
punished  by  imprisonment  in  the  State  prison  not  ex- 
ceeding three  years,  or  in  the  county  jail  not  exceeding 
one  year,  or  by  fine  not  exceeding  one  thousand  dollars. 

5413.  Enticing  female  to  come  into  State  or  to  leave  ch.  6225, 

.  May  17, 

her  home  for  immoral  purposes. — Whoever  shall  induce,  1911,  See. 


entice  or  procure  to  come  into  this  State  or  to  leave  her 
home  or  other  place  where  she  may  be  residing  in  this 
State,  any  woman  or  girl  for  the  purpose  of  prostitution 
or  concubinage  or  for  other  immoral  purposes,  or  to 
enter  any  house  of  prostitution  in  this  State,  shall  upon 


1. 


Sees.  2.  4, 
Acts  1881. 


72 

conviction  be  imprisoned  in  the  State  penitentiary  for  a 
period  of  not  more  than  five  years,  or  be  fined  not  exceed- 
ing one  thousand  dollars,  or  shall  be  both  so  fined  or 

imprisoned. 

5422.  (3532.)  White  persons  and  negroes  living  in 
adultery. — If  any  white  person  and  negro,  or  mulatto, 
shall  live  in  adultery  or  fornication  with  each  other,  each 
shall  be  punished  by  imprisonment  not  exceeding  twelve 
months,  or  by  fine  not  exceeding  one  thousand  dollars. 

Every  person  who  shall  have  one-eighth  negro  blood 
shall  be  deemed  and  held  a  mulatto. 

Ch.  3282,  5423.   (3533.)     Negro  man  and  white  woman  or  white 

man  and  negro  woman  occupying  same  room. — Any 
negro  man  and  white  woman,  or  any  white  man  and 
negro  woman,  who  are  not  married  to  each  other,  who 
shall  habitually  live  in  and  occupy  in  the  night  time  the 
same  room  shall  each  be  punished  by  imprisonment  not 
exceeding  twelve  months,  or  by  fine  not  exceeding  five 
hundred  dollars. 


ARTICLE  19 

Vagrants  and  Tramps. 

Ch.  1637,  5497.   (3570.)     Who  are  vagrants. — Rogues  and  vaga- 

Acts  1868?'  bonds,  idle  or  dissolute  persons  who  go  about  begging, 
Ch?'54i'9,  common  gamblers,  persons  who  use  juggling,  or  unlaw- 
s^^h^^'  ^^^  games  or  plays,  common  pipers  and  fiddlers,  com- 
bv  a^^*^  mon  drunkards,  common  night  walkers,  thieves,  pilferers, 
3^1907^"^  traders  in  stolen  property,  lewd,  wanton  and  lascivious 
persons,  keepers  of  gambling  places,  common  railers  and 
brawlers,  persons  who  neglect  their  calling  or  employ- 
ment, or  are  without  reasonably  continuous  employment 
or  regular  income  and  who  have  not  sufficient  property 
to  sustain  them,  and  misspend  what  they  earn  without 
providing  for  themselves  or  the  support  of  their  families, 
persons  wandering  or  strolling  around  from  place  to  place 


Sec.  1. 


without  any  lawful  purpose  or  object,  habitual  loafers, 
idle  and  disorderly  persons,  persons  neglecting  all  law- 
ful business  and  habitually  spending  their  time  by  fre- 
quenting houses  of  ill  fame,  gaming  houses  or  tippling 
shops,  persons  able  to  work  but  habitually  living  upon 
the  earnings  of  their  wives  or  minor  children,  and  all  able 
bodied  male  persons  over  the  age  of  eighteen  years  who 
are  without  means  of  support  and  remain  in  idleness, 
shall  be  deemed  vagrants,  and  upon  conviction  shall  be 
subject  to  the  penalty  provided  in  Section  5498. 

5524.  Depositing  deleterious  substance  in  waters  of  Ch.  5954, 
lakes,  rivers,  etc. — Any  person  or  persons,  firm,  com-  1909!  ' 
pany,  corporation  or  association  in  this  State,  or  the  ^^^'^' 
managing  agent  of  any  person  or  persons,  firm,  company, 
corporation  or  association  in  this  State,  or  any  duly 
elected,  appointed  or  lawfully  created  State  officer  of  this 
State,  or  any  duly  elected,  appointed  or  lawfully  created 
officer  of  any  county,  city,  town,  municipality,  or  munici- 
pal government  in  this  State,  who  shall  deposit,  or  who 
shall  permit  or  allow  any  person  or  persons  in  their  em- 
ploy or  under  their  control,  management  or  direction  to 
deposit  in  any  of  the  waters  of  the  lakes,  rivers,  streams 
and  ditches  in  this  State,  any  rubbish,  filth,  or  poisonous, 
or  deleterious  substance  or  substances,  liable  to  afifect  the 
health  of  persons,  fish,  or  live  stock,  or  place  or  deposit 
any  such  deleterious  substance  or  substances  in  any  place 
where  the  same  may  be  washed  or  infiltered  into  any  of 
the  waters  herein  named,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a 
misdemeanor,  and,  upon  conviction  thereof  in  any  court 
of  competent  jurisdiction,  shall  be  fined  in  a  sum  not 
more  than  five  hundred  dollars;  "Provided,  further.  That 
the  carrying  into  effect  of  the  provisions  of  this  Section 
shall  be  under  the  supervision  of  the  State  Board  of 
Health." 


5525.     Discharging    sewerage,    etc.,    in    underground  9^-  ^443, 

June  7, 

waters. — Any  municipal  corporation,  private  corporation,   i9i3,  See. 
person  or  persons  that  shall  discharge  sewerage  or  sur- 
face drainage,  or  permit  the  same  to  flow  into  the  under- 


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ground  waters  of  the  State,  contrary  to  the  provisions 
of  Chapter  14,  Title  11  First  Division  of  these  Revised 
General  Statutes,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misde- 
meanor, and  shall  upon  conviction  be  punished  by  a  fine 
of  twenty-five  dollars  for  each  offense,  and  the  doing 
of  the  prohibited  Act  for  each  day  shall  constitute  a 
separate  offense,  or  by  imprisonment  not  exceeding  one 
month,  or  both,  at  the  discretion  of  the  court. 

Ch.  7395,  5543.     Practicing  embalming  without  complying  with 

Sec.  16.  '  law. — Any  person  who  shall  practice  or  be  known  as 
practicing  embalming  without  complying  with  the  pro- 
visions of  Chapter  27,  Title  11,  First  Division  of  these 
Revised  General  Statutes,  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misde- 
meanor and  upon  conviction  thereof  before  a  court  of 
competent  jurisdiction  shall  be  sentenced  to  pay  a  fine 
of  not  less  than  twenty-five  dollars  or  more  than  one 
hundred  dollars  for  each  and  every  offense.  All  fines 
assessed  for  the  violation  of  any  of  the  provisions  of  this 
section  shall  be  paid  to  the  Treasurer  of  the  State  to  ap- 
ply to  the  public  school  fund. 


ARTICLE  5. 
Health  and  Quarantine  Laws. 
Ch.  3839,  5544.   (3619.)     Physicians  to  report  certain  diseases. 

Sees.  4,  5, 

Acts  1889.  Whoever,  being  a  licensed  or  practicing  physician,  fails 
to  report  immediately  to  the  president  of  the  State  Board 
of  Health  by  telegram  (to  be  paid  for  out  of  the  funds 
to  be  provided  for  the  expenses  of  the  said  Board  of 
Health),  or  in  the  most  expeditious  manner,  every  case 
of  yellow  fever,  smallpox  or  cholera  that  comes  within 
his  practice,  shall  be  punished  by  imprisonment  not  ex- 
ceeding six  months,  or  by  fine  not  exceeding  one  thou- 
sand dollars. 


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5545.  (3620.)     Suspicious  cases  of  contagious  or  in-  ^^-Jflh 
factious    diseases. — Any    physician,    city    health    officer,   Sec  4. 
mayor,  county  health  physician,  or  chairman  of  the  board 

of  county  commissioners,  who  shall  neg'lect  or  fail  to 
comply  with  the  provisions  of  Sections  2095  to  2097, 
shall,  upon  conviction,  be  liable  to  a  fine  of  one  hundred 
dollars  or  imprisonment  for  thirty  days. 

5546.  (3621.)     Disseminating    rumors    of    disease. —  Ch.  3839, 
Whoever  falsely  or  maliciously  disseminates  or  spreads  Acts  1889. 
rumors  or  reports  concerning  the  existence  of  any  infec- 
tious or  contagious  disease  shall  be  punished  by  imprison- 
ment not  exceeding  six  months,  or  by  fine  not  exceeding 

one  thousand  dollars. 

5547.  (3622.)     Disobeying    quarantine    regulations. —  ib., 
Whoever  violates,   disobeys,  omits,   neglects  or  refuses 

to  comply  with  any  quarantine  regulations  which  may 
be  established  by  the  State  Health  Officer  or  any  of  the 
rules  and  regulations  which  may  be  duly  promulgated 
by  said  State  Health  Officer  or  said  State  Board  of 
Health,  shall  be  punished  by  imprisonment  not  exceed- 
ing six  months,  or  by  fine  not  exceeding  one  thousand 
dollars. 


Ch.  5931, 


5548.  Violation   of   rules    made   by   State   Board   of 
Health. — ^That   any   person   who   shall   violate,   disobey,  sec2.^°'' 
refuse,  omit  or  neglect  to  comply  with  any  rule  of  the 

State  Board  of  Health  made  by  it  in  pursuance  of  Sec- 
tion 2004  of  these  Revised  General  Statutes  shall  be 
guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and,  upon  conviction  thereof, 
shall  be  punished  in  the  manner  provided  by  law  for 
violation  of  the  rules  of  said  board. 

5549.  (3623.)     Obstructing    officer. — Whoever    inter-  ch.  3859. 
feres  with,  hinders  or  opposes  any  agent,  officer  or  mem-  Acts  i889. 
ber  of  the  State  Board  of  Health  in  the  discharge  of  his 

duty  as  such,  shall  be  punished  by  imprisonment  not  ex- 
ceeding six  months,  or  by  fine  not  exceeding  one  thou- 
sand dollars.  Nothing  in  this  section  shall  prevent  a 
member  or  any  officer  of  the  State  Board  of  Health  from 


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exercising"  or  performing  any  of  the  requirements  of  law. 
relative  to  the  State  Board  of  Health,  or  any  of  the  rules 
and  regulations  of  said  State  board. 

Ch.  6892,  5550.     Violation  of  regulations  as  to  vital  statistics. — 

Acts  191S,  ° 

Sec.  22.  That  any  person,  who  for  himself  or  as  an  officer,  agent 
or  employee  of  any  other  person,  or  of  any  corporation  or 
partnership,  shall  refuse  or  neglect  to  perform  any  of  the 
duties  required  by  Chapter  8,  Title  11,  First  Division  of 
these  Revised  General  Statutes,  instructions  and  direc- 
tions of  the  State  Registrar,  or  rules  and  regulations  of 
the  State  Board  of  Health,  or  who  shall  violate  any  of 
the  provisions  of  said  chapter,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of 
a  misdemeanor,  and  upon  conviction  thereof,  shall  be 
punished  by  a  fine  of  not  less  than  five  dollars  nor  more 
than  one  hundred  dollars. 

Ch.  5195,  5551.   (3625.)     Water  companies  to  clean  tanks  and 

Acts  1903.  ,■  ■'  .  ,        , 

flush  mams. — All  water  companies,  whether  owned  and 
controlled  by  individuals,  corporations  or  municipalities, 
who  sell,  rent  or  supply  to  private  individuals  water  for 
drinking  purposes,  are  hereby  required  to  clean  all  tanks 
and  receptacles  for  holding  water  used  for  drinking  pur- 
poses, and  flush  their  water  mains  in  such  a  manner  as 
to  get  rid  of  all  sediment,  rust,  etc.,  that  may  have  col- 
lected therein,  not  less  than  twice  in  each  calendar  year; 
such  cleaning  and  flushing  to  be  done  within  ten  days 
immediately  preceding  the  first  day  of  May  and  first  day 
of  November,  respectively,  of  each  year.  Violations  of 
this  section  shall  be  punished  by  fine  of  not  less  than 
one  hundred  dollars,  nor  more  than  five  hundred  dollars 
for  each  offense. 


ARTICLE  12 

Nuisances. 

Feb.  10,  5624.   (3680.)     Indictment  and  removal. — All  nuisan- 

Sec.47.        ces  which  tend  to  annoy  the  community  or  injure  the 

health  of  the  citizens  in  general,  or  to  corrupt  the  public 

morals,  shall  be  indictable  and  punishable  by  a  fine  not 


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exceeding  two  hundred  dollars,  at  the  discretion  of  the 
court;  and  any  nuisance  which  tends  to  the  immediate 
annoyance  of  the  citizens  in  general,  or  is  manifestly  in- 
jurious to  the  public  health  and  safety,  or  tends  greatly 
to  corrupt  the  manners  and  morals  of  the  people,  may  be 
removed  and  suppressed  by  the  order  of  the  justice  of 
the  peace  of  the  district,  founded  upon  the  verdict  of 
twelve  householders  of  the  same,  who  shall  be  sum- 
moned, sworn  and  impaneled  for  that  purpose,  which 
order  shall  be  directed  to  and  executed  by  any  sheriff  or 
constable  of  the  county;  and  an  indictment  shall  lie  for 
the  same. 

Judgment  must  be   adapted   to   nature   of    nuisance.      P.    &    I.    R.    Ry.    Co.    v 
State,   23    Fla.    546,   3    So.    158. 

See   J.   T.    &   K.   W.    Ry.    Co.   v   Thompson,   34    Fla.    346,    16    So.   282. 

5627.  (3683.)  Nuisances  injurious  to  health. — Filth,  ch.  4346, 
the  contents  of  cesspools,  offal,  garbage,  foul  water,  dye-  sec^i.^^^' 
water,  refuse  from  manufactories,  urine,  stable  manure, 
decayed  animal  or  vegetable  matter,  or  other  offensive 
substance  detrimental  to  health,  thrown,  placed  or 
allowed  to  remain  in  or  upon  any  private  premises,  street, 
avenue,  alley,  sidewalk,  gutter,  public  reservation  or 
open  lot  within  any  incorporated  city  or  unincorporated 
town  or  village  of  the  State  of  Florida,  are  hereby  de- 
clared nuisances  injurious  to  health;  and  any  person 
who  shall  commit,  create  or  maintain  the  aforesaid 
nuisances,  or  either  of  them,  shall  upon  conviction  be 
fined  not  less  than  five  nor  more  than  twenty-five  dollars 
for  every  such  offense. 

See   Logan   v   Childs,    51    Fla.    233,   41    So.    197. 

'5628.  (3684.)  Noisome  odors  or  noxious  gases  aris-  ib.,  Sec  3. 
ing  from  certain  causes. — The  filling,  leveling  or  raising 
the  surface  of  any  ground  or  lot,  within  any  incorporated 
city  or  unincorporated  town  or  village  of  the  State  of 
Florida,  with  animal  or  vegetable  substances,  filth  gath- 
ered in  cleaning  yards  or  streets,  waste  material  from 
mills  or  factories,  or  the  removal  of  the  surface  of  any 
ground  or  lot  within  said  cities,  towns  or  villages,  filled 
with  such  offensive  matter  or  substance,  in  such  man- 


lb.,  Sec.  4. 


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ner  as  to  cause  noisome  odors  or  noxious  gases  to  arise, 
are  hereby  declared  nuisances  injurious  to  health;  and 
any  person  who  shall  cause,  commit,  create  or  maintain 
such  nuisance  shall  be  fined  not  less  than  five  nor  more 
than  twenty  dollars  for  every  such  offense. 

5629.  (3685.)  Water  closets. — All  water  closets  and 
privies  connected  with  any  house,  building  or  premises, 
within  any  incorporated  city  or  unincorporated  town  or 
village  of  the  State  of  Florida,  in  or  upon  which  people 
live,  or  where  they  congregate  or  assemble,  or  any  kind 
of  business  is  done,  kept  in  a  filthy  and  offensive  con- 
dition, or  from  which  noisome  odors  and  noxious  gases 
arise,  and  all  water  closets  located  within  and  being  a 
part  of  any  such  house  or  building,  not  provided  with 
proper  sewer  traps,  so  as  to  prevent  the  return  and  es- 
cape of  noxious  gases  and  offensive  odors  from  any 
public  or  private  sewer  connected  therewith,  are  hereby 
declared  nuisances  injurious  to  health,  and  any  person 
creating,  keeping  or  maintaining  such  nuisance  shall  be 
fined  not  less  than  five  nor  more  than  twenty-five  dollars. 

lb.,  Sec.  s.  5530^   (3686.)     Privies   to   be   inspected.— Fecal   mat- 

ter, not  thoroughly  deodorized  and  disinfected,  remaining 
in  privies  in  any  incorporated  city  or  unincorporated 
town  or  village  of  the  State  of  Florida,  is  hereby  declared 
a  nuisance  injurious  to  health;  and  the  State  Health 
Officer  shall,  upon  receipt  of  complaint  in  writing,  cause 
any  privy  to  be  inspected,  and,  if  necessary,  cleaned  by 
the  person  authorized  for  said  purpose ;  and  any  person 
owning  or  occupying  premises  on  which  any  privy  is 
situated,  which  shall  be  inspected  and  cleaned  at  the 
times  designated  by  the  said  State  Health  Officer,  or 
whenever  necessary,  shall,  upon  conviction,  be  fined  not 
less  than  five  nor  more  than  twenty  dollars  for  every 
such  offense. 

lb..  Sec.  6.  5631.   (3687.)     Contents  of  privies. — It  shall  be  un- 

lawful for  any  person  to  deposit  the  contents  of  any  privy 
in  any  other  place  than  such  as  may  be  approved  by  the 
State  Health  Officer,  the  health  authorities  of  any  in- 


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corporated  city  or  by  the  inspector  of  the  State  Board 
of  Health,  if  in  an  unincorporated  town,  in  the  State  of 
Florida;  and  any  person  so  offending  shall  be  fined  not 
less  than  five  nor  more  than  fifty  dollars  for  every  such 
oft'ense. 

5632.  Violation  of  regulations  as  to  surface  closets. —  Ch.  6895, 

Acts  1915, 

That  an\'  person,  firm  or  corporation  keepinsf  or  main-   See  i  as 

'■  JT       o  amended 

taining-  surface  closets  and  privies  used  for  the  deposit  byCh. 

°  ,       ,  ^  ^  7822,  Acts 

of  human  excreta  within  incorporated  limits,  unincorpo-  i5i9. 
rated  towns,  suburbs  and  thickly  settled  communities 
which  are  not  fly-proof  in  construction  and  are  not  in 
conformity  with  plans  recommended  or  approved  by  the 
State  Board  of  Health,  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor 
and  upon  conviction  thereof  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine 
not  exceeding  ten  dollars. 

5633.  (3688.)     Keeping   hogs   in   pen. — The   keeping,   ch.  4346, 
herding  and  feeding  of  hogs  in  pens  or  otherivise  within   sec^;.^^' 
any    incorporated   city    or    unincorporated    town    of    the 

State  of  Florida  of  over  two  thousand  inhabitants,  is 
hereby  declared  a  nuisance  injurious  to  health;  and  any 
person  creating  or  maintaining  such  nuisance  who  shall 
fail,  after  due  notice  from  the  State  Health  Officer  to 
abate  the  same,  shall  be  fined  not  less  than  five  nor  more 
than  twenty-five  dollars   for  every  such   offense. 


lb.,  Sec.  8. 


5634.  r3689.)  Glanders  and  other  contagious  diseases. 
Any  animal  affected  by  glanders  or  other  contagious  or 
pestilential  disease  kept  in  any  part  of  the  State  of 
Florida,  is  hereby  declared  a  nuisance  injurious  to 
health;  and  any  person  keeping  or  maintaining  such 
nuisance,  who  shall  fail,  after  due  notice  from  the  State 
Health  Officer,  to  abate  the  same,  shall  be  fined  not  less 
than  five  nor  more  than  twenty-five  dollars  for  every 
such  offense. 

5635,  ('3690.)     Certain  acts  declared  to  be  nuisances,    ib.,  Sec.  9. 

The  boiling  of  offal,  swill,  bones,  fat,  tallow  or  lard,  the 
crushing,  grinding  or  burning  of  bones  or  shells,  clean- 
ing guts,    making  glue   from   any    dead    animal    or   part 


thereof,  making-  or  boiling  varnish  or  oil,  making  lamp 
black,  turpentine  or  tar,  distilling  ardent,  alcoholic  or 
fermented  spirits,  storing  or  keeping  fat  scraps,  grease 
or  other  offensive  animal  matter,  rendering  or  trying  out 
dead,  undressed  and  unslaughtered  animals,  or  any  other 
business  or  trade  whereby  noisome  stenches  and  odors 
and  noxious  gases  arise  or  are  generated,  within  any  in- 
corporated or  unincorporated  city  or  town  of  the  State 
of  Florida  of  over  two  hundred  inhabitants,  are  hereby 
declared  nuisances  injurious  to  health;  and  any  person 
who  shall  cause,  erect,  create,  maintain  or  continue  any 
such  nuisance,  and  who  shall  fail,  after  due  notice  from 
the  State  Health  Officer,  to  abate  the  same,  shall  be  fined 
one  hundred  dollars. 

lb.,  5636.   (3691.)     Slaughter  houses. — Unclean  and  filthy 

slaughter  houses,  rooms,  buildings  or  places  where  sheep, 
hogs,  cattle  or  other  animals  are  slaughtered  within  any 
incorporated  city  or  town  or  any  unincorporated  town 
or  village  of  the  State  of  Florida  are  hereby  declared 
nuisances  injurious  to  health;  and  any  person  creating, 
keeping  or  maintaining  such  nuisances,  who  shall  fail, 
after  due  notice  from  the  State  Health  officer,  to  abate 
the  same,  shall  be  fined  not  more  than  fifty  dollars. 

Ch.  4351,  5637.   (3692.)     Diseased  animals. — It  shall  be  unlaw- 

Acts  1895 

Sec.  1.  '  ful  for  any  person  to  bring  into  this  State  or  to  offer  for 
sale  therein  any  horses,  mules,  cattle,  hogs  or  other  do- 
mestic animals,  knowing  at  the  time  of  such  introduction 
or  offering  for  sale  of  any  such  animals  that  they  are 
suffering  from  disease  known  as  glanders,  farcy,  cholera, 
Texas  fever  or  other  virulent,  contagious  or  infectious 
diseases ;  and  any  person  convicted  of  such  offense  shall 
be  punished  by  imprisonment  not  more  than  four  years 
in  the  State  prison,  or  by  fine  of  not  more  than  one 
thousand  dollars. 
Ch.4696,  5638.   (3693.)     Sanitary    inspection    of    buildings. — If 

Sec.  5.  '  the  owner  or  managing  occupant,  or  both,  who  shall  be 
required  by  notice  from  the  State  Board  of  Health  to 
remedy  such  unsanitary  conditions,  as  provided  against 


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by  law,  shall  fail  to  comply  therewith  within  the  time 
mentioned,  he  shall  be  punished  by  fine  not  exceeding  one 
hundred  dollars,  or  imprisonment  not  exceeding  thirty 
days. 

5639.  Places  declared  a  nuisance;  may  be  abated  and  ch.  7367, 
enjoined.— Whoever  shall  erect,  establish,  continue,  or  secfi"^^' 
maintain,  own  or  lease  any  building,  booth,  tent  or  place 
which  tends  to  annoy  the  community  or  injure  the  health 
of  the  community,  or  become  manifestly  injurious  to 
the  morals  or  manners  of  the  people  as  described  in  Sec- 
tion 5624,  or  shall  be  frequented  by  the  class  of  persons 
mentioned  in  Section  5497,  or  any  house  or  place  of 
prostitution,  assignation,  lewdness  or  place  or  building 
where  games  of  chance  are  engaged  in  in  violation  of  law 
or  any  place  where  any  law  of  the  State  of  Florida  is 
violated,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  nuisance,  and  the 
building,  erection,  place,  tent  or  booth  and  the  furniture, 
fixtures  and  contents  are  also  declared  a  nuisance,  and  all 
such  persons,  places,  shall  be  abated  and  enjoined  as  pro- 
vided in  Article  19,  Chapter  10,  Title  3,  Second  Division 
of  these  Revised  General  Statutes. 


Ch.  69S3, 
Acts  1915, 


ec.  5. 


5642.  Violation  of  regulations  as  to  screening  hotels, 
etc.  places  where  food  is  exposed,  and  dining  cars. — Any  s 
person,  firm  or  corporation  found  guilty  of  violating  any 
of  the  provisions  of  Sections  2153  to  2156,  inclusive,  shall 
be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and,  upon  conviction, 
fined  not  exceeding  fifty  dollars  or  punished  by  imprison- 
ment not  exceeding  three  months.  Each  day's  business 
conducted  in  violation  of  the  provisions  of  this  Act  shall 
constitute  a  separate  offense. 

5672.     Violation    of    regulations    as    to    employment   ch.  6Si9, 

bonds. — Any  person,  company,  corporation,  association  i9"|,sec. 
or  firm  who  shall  violate  any  of  the  provisions  of  Article 
4,  Chapter  5,  Title  2,  Fourth  Division  of  these  Revised 
General  Statutes,  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and  be 
punished  by  a  fine  of  not  less  than  one  hundred  dollars 
nor  more  than  one  thousand  dollars,  and  by  imprison- 


4. 


Ch.  6836, 


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ment  in  the  county  jail  for  a  period  of  not  less  than  thirty 
days,  nor  more  than  one  year. 

5872.     Failure  to  provide  school  building  with  closets. 


Acts  1915,  'p^^^  ^j^y  public  school  board  or  any  person,  firm  or 
corporation  conducting"  any  private  school,  who  shall 
have  charge  of  the  erection,  repair  or  maintenance  of 
any  school  building,  who  shall  fail  to  provide  said  build- 
ings with  the  facilities  required  by  Section  473,  or  who 
shall  fail  to  provide  surface  closets  as  required  by  Sec- 
tion 474,  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  upon  con- 
viction thereof  shall  be  fined  not  exceeding  fifty  dollars. 


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RULES,  REGULATIONS  AND  INSTRUCTIONS 

The  Florida  State  Board  of  Health  promulg-ates  the  following 
Rules,  Regulations  and  Instructions  for  the  preservation  of  the 
public  health  of  the  State  of  Florida;  made  pursuant  to  authority 
by  law  in  said  board  vested. 

Rule  No.  1.  (33.)  Warning  Cards.  Any  County  or  Municipal 
Health  Officer  or  accredited  representative  of  the  State  Board  of 
Health,  having  knowledge  of  or  having  reason  to  suspect  the 
existence  of  a  case  of  smallpox,  diphtheria,  bubonic  plague,  measles, 
scarlet  fever,  typhus  fever,  epidemic  cerebrospinal  meningitis, 
Asiatic  cholera,  acute  anterior  poliomyelitis  or  whooping  cough, 
shall  investigate  and  at  once  place  upon  any  house  or  other  place  of 
residence  where  such  diseases  exist,  a  sign  or  warning  card  setting 
forth  the  facts.  Such  signs  or  warning  cards  shall  not  be  removed 
by  any  person  until  authorized  by  a  county  or  municipal  Health 
Officer  or  accredited  representative  of  the  State  Board  of  Health, 
upon  the  termination  of  infection. 

Rule  No.  2.  (34.)  Specifications  of  Warning  Cards.  The  State 
Health  Officer  shall,  upon  request,  furnish  to  attending  physicians, 
local  health  officers  and  to  local  representatives  of  the  State  Board 
of  Health,  such  warning  or  isolation  cards  as  are  required  by  Rule 
No.  1,  to  be  placed  when  necessary  or  required  upon  infected  or 
isolated  premises,  which  cards  shall  be  of  such  size  and  color  and 
shall  contain  thereon  such  written  or  printed  warning  and  such 
designation  of  the  disease  as  the  State  Health  Officer  may  consider 
reasonable  and  proper  for  the  protection  of  the  public. 

Rule  No.  3.  (35.)  Destroying  or  Defacing  Warning  Cards. 
No  person  or  persons  shall  alter,  deface,  remove,  destroy  or,  tear 
down  any  warning  card  posted  by  a  local  health  officer  or  repre- 
sentative of  the  State  Board  of  Health.  The  occupant  or  persons 
having  possession  or  control  of  a  building  upon  which  a  warning 
card  has  been  placed  shall  within  twenty-four  (24)  hours  after  the 
destruction  or  removal  of  such  notice  by  other  than  the  proper 
sanitary  officials,  notify  the  local  health  officer  or  representative  of 
the  State  Board  of  Health  of  such  destruction  or  removal. 


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Rule  No.  4.  (4.)  Definition  of  Isolation.  Isolation  is  defined 
to  be  tPie  complete  separation  of  the  person  infected  with  a  com- 
municable disease  and  those  attendant  upon  him,  from  all  other 
persons  upon  the  premises. 

Rule  No.  5.  (3.)  Isolation  of  Persons  Infected  With  Com- 
municable Diseases.  When  any  person  is  found  infected  with  any 
communicable  disease,  dangerous  to  public  health,  the  State  Health 
Officer  or  his  accredited  representative  is  empowered  and 
authorized  to  remove  such  infected  person  to  a  safe,  suitable  and 
proper  place,  and  there  provide  medical  treatment  for  such  per- 
son, provided  same  can  be  done  without  danger  to  the  life  of  such 
person. 

If,  in  the  opinion  of  the  State  Health  Officer  or  his  representa- 
tive, complete  isolation  of  such  infected  person  can  be  had  in  the 
house  where  he  or  she  is  found,  such  person  may  be  permitted  to 
remain  there,  in  which  event  a  complete  isolation  of  the  room  or 
rooms  of  the  house  in  which  such  infected  person  is,  shall  be  estab- 
lished, and  the  physician,  nurse,  attendant  and  persons  sick  therein, 
and  all  persons  approaching  or  coming  within  the  limits  thereof, 
and  all  furniture  and  other  articles  used  or  brought  there,  shall  be 
subject  to  such  restrictions  as  the  State  Health  Officer  or  his  ac- 
credited representative  may  prescribe. 

Rule  No,  6.  Defining  Period  of  Isolation.  The  period  during 
which  isolation  shall  be  in  force  shall  date  from  the  onset  of  the 
disease  and  shall  be  as  follows : 

For: 

Smallpox 14  days, 

Scarlet  fever 30  days, 

and  until  all  discharges  have  disappeared. 

Measles    10  days. 

Whooping  cough 50  days, 

Chickenpox    14  days. 

Mumps    14  days. 

Epidemic  cerebrospinal  meningitis  must  be  isolated  from  the 
onset  of  the  disease  until  bacteriological  disappearance  of  the 
meningococcus.     Acute   Anterior    Poliomyelitis   must   be   isolated 


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from  the  onset  of  the  disease  until  three  weeks  after  recovery  from 
all  acute  symptoms. 

Rule  7.(  30.)  Isolation  of  Leprosy.  All  persons  affected  with 
leprosy  shall  be  continually  confined  upon  their  home  premises 
and  kept  off  the  public  thoroughfares  and  out  of  public  vehicles 
of  transportation,  or  confined  in  such  places  as  shall  be  designated 
by  the  State  Health  Officer. 

Rule  No.  8.     Diphtheria,   How  Released  From   Isolation.     No 

case  of  diphtheria  shall  be  released  from  isolation,  nor  shall  the 
placard  or  warning  sign  on  a  place  where  such  case  is  isolated  be 
removed,  until  t\70  successive  sets  of  swabs  taken  from  nose  and 
throat  of  such  patient,  not  less  than  twenty-four  hours  apart,  shall 
show  negative  reports. 

No  swabs  for  such  release  from  isolation  shall  be  taken  from 
such  patients  less  than  four  hours  from  the  time  of  the  last  local 
treatment,  nor  shall  cultures  from  such  swabs  be  made  in  any 
other  than  a  State  Board  of  Health  laboratory  or  other  laboratory 
approved  by  the  State  Health  Officer. 

Rule  No.  9.  (10,  15,  17,  36.)  Disinfection  of  Premises.  The 
apartments,  rooms,  boat  or  any  other  domicile  or  the  contents  there- 
of occupied  by  a  person  infected  with  any  communicable  disease, 
shall  be  disinfected  when  made  vacant  by  death,  removal  or  recov- 
ery of  the  patient.  All  persons  having  occupied  such  apartments 
or  other  domicile  during  the  period  of  isolation  must  have  their 
clothing  disinfected  and  take  a  disinfecting  bath  before  being  re- 
leased from  isolation. 

No  person  shall  let  for  hire,  or  cause  or  permit  anyone  to  oc- 
cupy such  apartments  or  other  domicile  until  said  apartments  or 
other  domicile  shall  have  been  disinfected. 

(See  Rule  No.  39,  Method  of  Disinfection.) 

Rule  No.  10.     Protecting     Schools     Against      Commimicable 

Disease.  No  person  infected  with  a  communicable  disease  shall 
be  permitted  to  attend,  teach  or  be  otherwise  employed  in  any 
private,  parochial  or  public  school,  or  any  college  or  university. 


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Rule  No.  11,  (32.)  Trachoma  Excluded  From  Schools,  Persons 
afflicted  with  trachoma  are  prohibited  from  attending  public, 
private  or  parochial  schools,  colleges  or  universities. 

Rule  No,  12.  (81.)  A  rule  forbidding  individuals  to  teach  in 
the  public  schools  of  Florida  without  having  a  health  certificate 
from  a  reputable  physician  showing  that  they  are  not  affected  with 
or  are  not  carriers  of  communicable  diseases. 

Section  No.  1.  All  teachers  or  instructors  in  any  public  school 
operating  within  the  State  of  Florida  or  in  any  private  school 
operating  in  the  State  of  Florida,  shall  be  required  to  file  with  the 
State  Board  of  Health  of  Florida  annually  before  the  beginning  of 
each  school  year  a  certificate  obtained  from  a  reputable  physician 
who  is  licensed  to  practice  in  the  State  of  Florida  certifying  that 
said  teacher  or  instructor  has  been  duly  and  carefully  examined 
and  is  free  from  communicable  diseases  and  is  believed  to  be  a  non- 
carrier  thereof. 

Rule  No.  13.  Children's  Certificate  for  Admission  to  School, 
All  children  on  entering  school  in  Florida  must  present  a  certificate 
from  a  reputable  physician,  stating  that  they  are  free  from  all  com- 
municable diseases,  and  are  not  carriers  of  any. 

Rule  No.  14.  Prohibiting  Certain  Occupations.  No  person 
infected  with  any  communicable  disease  shall  engage  in  the  occupa- 
tion of  nurse,  nurse-maid,  domestic  servant,  barber,  hairdresser, 
manicurist,  chiropodist,  bath  attendant,  masseur;  or  any  occupa- 
tion which  involves  the  preparation,  handling,  serving  or  dispens- 
ing, by  the  infected  person,  of  foods,  drugs  or  beverages  intended 
for  the  use  of  others. 

Rule  No.  15.  (28.)  Muzzling,  If  it  shall  appear  to  the  State 
Health  Officer  that  the  life  and  health  of  any  settlement,  village, 
town  or  city  is  endangered  by  the  prevalence  of  rabies,  then  the 
State  Health  Officer  shall  require  all  dogs  kept  in  such  settlement, 
village,  town  or  city  to  be  effectively  muzzled  and  for  such  a  length 
of  time  as  shall  be  necessary  and  proper.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of 
the  mayor  and  police  authorities  of  any  settlement,  village,  town 


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or  city,  when  such  an  order  is  promulgated  by  the  State  Health 
Officer,  to  enforce  its  provisions. 

Rule  No.  16.  (25.)  Suspected  Rabid  Animals  to  be  Confined. 
When  an  animal  suspected  of  having  rabies  has  bitten  a  human 
being,  the  person  so  bitten  or  his  or  her  legal  representative  shall 
secure  or  cause  to  be  secured,  such  animal  alive  and  without  injury 
if  possible.  The  animal  shall  be  confined  in  a  safe,  quiet,  roomy 
and  comfortable  place,  and  a  report  giving  full  particulars  concern- 
ing the  action  taken  sent  to  the  State  Health  Officer  at  Jackson- 
ville, Florida.  This  report  shall  include  the  name  of  the  locality  in 
which  the  biting  occurred,  the  date  the  bite  was  inflicted,  the  nami;, 
residence  and  address  of  the  owner  of  the  animal ;  the  full  name  or 
names  of  the  person  or  persons  bitten,  together  with  their  place  of 
residence,  age,  sex,  race,  and  information  as  to  location  and  extent 
of  bite  or  bites ;  the  names,  addresses  and  residences  of  all  owners 
of  animals  which  have  been  bitten  by  the  animal  in  question,  to- 
gether with  a  list  and  description  of  the  animals  bitten  and  the 
disposition  made  of  same.  Such  supposedly  rabid  animal  must  be 
kept  under  careful  observation  for  at  least  ten  days,  when,  if  rabid, 
clinical  evidence  of  rabies  will  manifest  itself,  and  death  will  shortly 
ensue. 

Rule    No.    17.    (26.)     Laboratory      Examination      in      Rabies. 

When  such  suspected  animal  dies,  the  head  and  several  inches  of 
the  neck  must  be  cut  off  and  sent  to  the  nearest  bacteriological 
laboratory  of  the  State  Board  of  Health  of  Florida  for  microscopical 
examination.  Care  must  be  taken  not  to  injure  the  brain  or  the 
spinal  cord.  The  head  and  neck  of  the  animal  must  be  carefully 
packed  in  a  tin  container,  surrounded  with  sufficient  ice  and  saw- 
dust to  preserve  it  from  decomposition  while  in  transit,  and  so  pre- 
pared for  shipment  that  its  contents  will  not  become  a  nuisance  to 
the  transportation  company  handling  the  shipment,  the  expense  of 
preparation  and  of  transportation  all  to  be  borne  by  the  shipper. 

Rule  No.  18.  (76.)  A  rule  to  better  protect  public  health  and 
particularly  to  prevent  the  egress  of  rats  and  rodents  from  vessels 
and  wharves,  docks  and  landings,  within  the  State  of  Florida. 

Section   1.  No  vessel  shall  come  into  any  port  or  landing  in 


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Florida,  to  land  or  to  moor  at  any  wharf  or  dock,  unless  said  ves- 
sel shall  be  fended  away  from  the  landing  place,  wharf  or  dock  for 
a  distance  of  at  least  four  (4)  feet,  and  every  hawser,  line,  rope 
and  other  means  of  staying  said  vessel  at  such  landing,  wharf  or 
dock  shall  be  provided  with  a  rat  shield  or  a  guard  properly  at- 
tached to  such  hawser  or  rope  which  shield  shall  be  of  the  pattern 
approved  by  the  United  States  Public  Health  Service,  and  so  de- 
signed and  constructed  and  used  as  to  effectually  prevent  the  egress 
of  rats  and  rodents  from  such  vessels  to  such  landing,  wharf  or 
dock. 

Sec.  2.  No  gangplank,  staging,  ladder,  skids  or  other  device 
whatsoever  whereby  rats  and  rodents  may  find  egress  from  a  vessel 
to  such  wharf,  dock  or  landing  shall  be  ever  allowed  to  extend  from 
any  vessel  in  communication  with  such  wharf,  landing  or  dock 
except  only  during  such  times  as  such  vessel  is  actually  engaged  in 
discharging  or  receiving  cargo  and  at  the  time  of  loading  or  dis- 
charging cargo  only  when  the  master,  owner  or  agent,  of  said  ves- 
sel shall  have  stationed  at  every  gangplank,  and  within  five  (5) 
feet  of  same,  a  person  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to  prevent  rats  and 
rodents  from  reaching  the  wharf,  dock  or  landing  from  said  ves- 
sel, while  not  actually  in  use  all  such  staging,  gangplanks,  and 
other  devices  and  means  of  egress  for  rats  and  rodents  from  ves- 
sels to  shore  shall  be  removed  so  as  to  positively  cut  off  all  com- 
munication from  said  vessel  to  the  dock,  landing  or  wharf. 

Sec.  3.  No  freight  so  packed  or  crated  as  to  allow  the  harbor- 
ing of  rats  and  rodents  shall  be  removed  from  any  vessel  until  the 
same  shall  have  been  examined  and  inspected  so  as  to  insure  the 
absence  of  rats  and  rodents  from  such  freight. 

Sec.  4.  The  following  definitions  of  words  used  in  this  Rule 
are  hereby  adopted: 

"Vessel"  is  meant  any  boat  engaged  in  traffic  or  carrying 
freight. 

"Wharf"  "dock"  or  "landing"  mean  and  shall  embrace  any 
place  where  a  vessel  may  land,  discharge  or  take  on  a  cargo  or 
freight,  receive  or  disembark  passengers,  whether  the  same  be  the 


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natural  shore  of  the  bay  or  a  structure  of  any  kind  that  may  be  used 
for  any  such  purpose. 

Sec.  5.  That  the  owner,  master  or  agent  of  any  vessel,  or  their 
servants  or  employees,  or  any  person  whomsoever  who  shall  violate 
any  provision  of  this  Rule  shall,  upon  conviction,  be  punished  as 
by  law. 

Sec.  6.  All  rules  and  parts  of  rules  in  conflict  herewith  be  and 
the  same  are  hereby  repealed. 

Ins.  No.  19.  Smallpox.  In  the  presence  of  a  case  of  small- 
pox, or  of  an  epidemic  of  such,  it  is  recommended : 

1.  See  the  case  and  personally  make  a  diagnosis.  Where  a 
diagnosis  is  difhcult  as  between  smallpox  and  some  other  less 
dangerous  infection,  it  is  best  to  temporarily  assume,  for  the  pur- 
pose of  safeguarding  the  public  health,  that  the  case  is  one  of  small- 
pox and  to  be  governed  accordingly. 

2.  Isolate  the  patient.  Contacts,  or  persons  who  have  been 
exposed  to  a  case  of  smallpox  but  as  yet  have  not  developed  any 
symptoms  of  the  infection,  can  not  be  isolated.  (The  term  "quaran- 
tine" has  been  abandoned  for  the  terms  "isolate"  and  "isolation.") 

3.  Placard  house,  apartment,  hotel  room,  tent,  boat  or  other 
domicile  wherein  patient  is  found.  Proper  placards  will  be  fur- 
nished by  the  State  Health  Officer  upon  application. 

4.  Urge  immediate  vaccination  of  all  other  occupants  of  the 
premises  and  all  persons  who  have  been  exposed.  It  is  also 
proper  to  urge  the  vaccination  of  children  in  schools.  It  is  not 
proper  nor  desirable  to  close  schools  on  account  of  the  presence  of 
smallpox  in  the  community. 

5.  It  must  be  borne  in  mind  that  vaccination  is  not,  under  any 
circumstances,  compulsory  in  Florida. 

6.  It  should  be  impressed  upon  the  public  that  vaccination  is 
the  only  way  to  prevent  smallpox  and  the  only  proper  way  to  pre- 
vent spread  of  the  disease,  and  that  all  other  measures  are  more 
or  less  ineffective  in  its  control  and  likely  to  create  a  false  sense  of 
security  in  the  minds  of  persons  unknowingly  exposed. 

7.  Vaccine  will  be  furnished  free  by  the  State  Board  of  Health. 


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(See  list  of  laboratories  and  distributors  of  State  Board  of  Health 
biologies.) 

Ins.  No.  20.  Diphtheria.  1.  In  handling  an  infection  the 
clinical  evidence  of  which  is  sufficient  to  indicate  diphtheria,  it  is 
recommended  that  swabs  be  immediately  taken  from  both  nose 
and  throat  and  forwarded  to  a  State  Board  of  Health  laboratory. 

2.  Antitoxin  should  be  given  such  cases  at  once,  in  a  liberal 
dose  (5,000  to  10,000  units  or  more)  and  repeated  as  indicated, 
not  waiting  for  a  laboratory  report.  The  toxin  of  diphtheria  pro- 
duces its  injurious  effect  immediately;  antitoxin  is  less  effective 
with  each  day's  delay  and  is  of  doubtful  effect  after  the  fourth  day. 

3.  If  first  culture  reports  are  negative,  and  if  case  is  clinically 
diphtheria,  continue  to  treat  it  as  such  until  diphtheria  can  be  posi- 
tively excluded. 

4.  Cases  known  or  suspected  to  be  diphtheria  should  be  isola- 
ted, placarded  and  reported  as  required  by  the  Rules  and  Regula- 
tions and  finally  should  be  released  when  and  as  prescribed  by 
Rule  No.  8. 

5.  On  the  appearance  of  a  case  of  diphtheria  in  a  school,  it  is 
proper  to  make  swabs  both  from  nose  and  throat  of  all  children 
and  teachers  to  determine  if  there  be  a  carrier.  By  most  physicians 
the  nose  swab  is  considered  to  be  more  important  than  that  from 
the  throat. 

6.  Diphtheria  carriers  are  classed  as  cases  of  diphtheria  and  are 
subject  to  the  same  Rules  and  Regulations  as  are  active  cases. 

7.  The  State  Board  of  Health  does  not  recommend  the  use  of 
immunizing  doses  of  antitoxin.  More  than  fifty  per  cent  of  all  per- 
sons are  immune  to  diphtheria.  In  giving  immunizing  doses  the 
patient  is  frequently  sensitized  and  as  a  consequence,  when  if  found 
necessary,  later  curative  doses  of  antitoxin  be  given,  untoward 
results  may  be  obtained  through  anaphylaxis. 

8.  It  is  recommended  in  the  case  of  contacts,  as  better  pro- 
cedure, to  isolate  such  patients,  secure  nose  and  throat  cultures 
and  if  found  infected  to  proceed  as  in  the  case  of  an  ordinary  car- 
rier; in  carrier  cases  only  local  treatment  is  recommended.  Where 
contacts  do  not  clear  up  in  a  reasonable  length  of  time,  the  State 
Laboratory  will    determine  the   virulence   of   the    organisms   pre- 


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sent,  by  animal  inoculation.  Upon  the  appearance  of  clinical  evi- 
dence of  diphtheria,  in  such  contacts  under  observation,  proceed  as 
indicated  in  active  cases;  giving  liberal  doses  of  antitoxin. 

9,  It  is  recommended  that  schools  be  not  closed  upon  the  ap- 
pearance of  diphtheria. 

Ins.  No.  21,  Scarlet  Fever.  1,  In  the  presence  of  an  out- 
break of  scarlet  fever,  isolate  cases  of  suspicious  sore  throat  pend- 
ing a  diagnosis.  If  diagnosis  is  in  doubt,  take  all  necessary  pre- 
cautions necessary  for  scarlet  fever  until  diagnosis  is  definitely  de- 
termined. 

2.  Cases  of  scarlet  fever  should  be  isolated,  placarded  and  re- 
ported as  required  by  the  Rules  and  Regulations  of  the  State  Board 
of  Health. 

3.  It  is  recommended  that  care  should  be  taken  to  see  that 
all  excretions,  secretions,  pus  and  all  discharges  from  cases  of 
scarlet  fever,  are  burned  or  thoroughly  disinfected. 

4.  Serious  consideration  should  be  given  to  the  matter  of  isola- 
ting patients   until   disappearance   of   all   discharges. 

Ins.  No.  22.  Typhoid  Fever.  Organism  typhoid  bacillus,  pre- 
sent in  the  intestinal  discharges  and  urine,  frequently  found  in  the 
excreta  from  the  skin  and  bronchial  secretions. 

The  infection  invariably  comes  from  a  case  or  carrier  either 
through  direct  contact  or  through  contaminated  food  or  drink,  or 
through  the  hands  of  a  second  person  as  the  nurse  or  attendant. 
Flies  can  carry  the  infection  for  considerable  distance,  a  half  mile 
or  more. 

Success  in  the  management  of  typhoid  fever  depends  on  an 
early  diagnosis.  When  a  case  of  typhoid  fever  is  diagnosed  the 
patient  should  preferably  be  placed  in  a  hospital  or  isolated  m  a 
well  ventilated  room  containing  as  little  furnishings  as  possible. 
The  room  should  be  thoroughly  screened  to  prevent  the  access  of 
flies,  in  the  absence  of  screens  the  patient  should  be  protected  by 
mosquito  net. 

No  dusting  or  dry  sweeping  should  be  done  in  the  room. 

The  case  should  be  promptly  reported  to  the  State  Board  of 
Health. 


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An  effort  should  be  made  to  determine  the  source  of  the  in- 
fection. 

All  food,  milk  and  water  used  by  the  patient  during  a  period  of 
thirty  days  immediately  preceding  the  illness  should  be  investi- 
gated and  its  source  determined.  Inquiries  should  be  instituted 
to  determine  possible  contact  with  a  case  or  carrier,  keeping  in 
mind  the  possible  transmission  by  flies  from  cases  or  carrier  in 
the  community. 

Success  in  the  prevention  of  the  spread  of  the  infection  depends 
on  the  scrupulous  cleanliness  of  the  person  of  the  patient  and  at- 
tendant. The  physician  in  attendance  upon  a  case  of  typhoid  fever 
should  give  to  the  nurse  or  other  attendant,  definite  and  minute 
instruction  relative  to  the  care  of  the  patient  and  the  precautions 
necessary  to  be  taken  both  with  the  patient  and  by  the  attendant 
to  prevent  the  spread  of  the  disease  to  others. 

The  disinfection  of  the  stools,  urine  and  other  excreta  is  of 
the  first  importance  and  should  be  carried  out  with  great  care. 

For  the  disinfection  of  the  urine  sufficient  bichloride  to  make  a 
1  to  1000  solution,  carbolic  acid  two  and  a  half  (2.5)  per  cent,  of 
formalin  ten  (10)  per  cent,  may  be  used.  The  urine  should  be 
allowed  to  stand  for  one  hour  before  discarding. 

Stools  may  be  disinfected  by  a  bleaching  powder,  three  (3) 
per  cent,  milk  of  lime  (1-8),  cresole  one  (1)  per  cent,  carbolic  acid 
five  (5)  per  cent,  formalin  ten  (10)  per  cent,  or  quick  lime  and  hot 
water.  The  discharges  should  be  received  in  glass  or  porcelain 
enameled  vessels  containing  some  of  the  germicidal  solution,  then 
sufficient  of  the  solution  added  to  make  twice  the  volume  of  the 
excreta  to  be  disinfected.  Disintegrate  the  mass  thoroughly  and 
let  stand  one  or  two  hours  protected  from  flies  before  emptying. 
Masses  are  so  difficult  to  penetrate  that  they  must  be  broken  up 
thoroughly  with  a  stick  or  paddle.  It  takes  twelve  hours  for 
strong  carbolic  solution  to  penetrate  a  small  fecal  mass,  larger 
masses  are  impenetrable  to  most  germicidals.  Bichloride  of  mercury 
in  ordinary  strength  is  worthless  as  a  disinfectant  for  typhoid 
stools. 

The  patient  should  have  his  own  dishes,  cups,  spoons,  glasses, 
etc.,  which  should  be  scalded  after  using.  They  should  not  be 
washed  in  common  with  dishes  used  by  others. 


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Remnants  of  food  should  not  be  eaten  by  others ;  such  remnants 
should  be  burned  or  boiled  before  discarding.  Those  who  nurse 
typhoid  should  not  prepare  food  for  others ;  it  is  particularly 
dangerous  for  them  to  have  anything  to  do  with  the  handling  of 
milk  used  by  other  members  of  the  family. 

Towels,  sheets,  night  gowns  and  all  fabrics  used  about  the 
patient  should  be  changed  daily  or  as  often  as.  they  become  soiled 
and  should  be  disinfected  by  boiling  or  emersed  in  a  disinfecting 
solution  for  one  hour.  1-1000  bichloride  solution,  2  point  5  carbolic 
acid  2.5  cresol,  or  Liq.  cresolis  compositus  one  per  cent  solution. 
The  water  used  to  bathe  the  patient  should  be  disinfected  before  it 
is  emptied ;  this  may  be  done  by  adding  sufficient  carbolic  acid  to 
make  two  and  a  half  (2.5)  per  cent  solution  or  three  (3)  per  cent 
bleaching  powder,  the  latter  is  cheaper  and  most  practical.  The 
nurse  should  disinfect  her  hands  by  washing  with  soap  and  water 
or  emerse  them  in  a  bichloride  solution  each  time  after  attending 
to  the  patient. 

Ins.  No.  23.  Tuberculosis.  1.  It  is  recommended  that  phy- 
sicians treating  cases  of  tuberculosis,  instruct  other  persons  com- 
ing in  contact  with  such  infected  persons  as  to  the  various  means 
of  personal  prophylaxis,  such  as : 

Lviving  a  clean,  normal  and  temperate  life.  Avoiding  close  or 
prolonged  association  with  persons  known  to  have  tuberculosis ; 
such  as  living  or  working  in  the  same  room.  Refusing  to  drink 
from  common  drinking  cups.  Refusing  to  drink  milk  that  does 
not  come  from  tuberculin-tested  cattle.  Strengthening  his  resist- 
ance by  getting  a  sufficient  amount  of  rest,  fresh  air,  good  food 
and  sunshine.  Avoiding  recurrent  colds  and  continuous  fatigue 
and  a  condition  of  anaemia  and  underweight. 

2.  As  tuberculous  sputum  is  the  principal  source  of  infection, 
it  should  be  disinfected  or  disposed  of  so  that  it  will  be  harmless 
to  others.  Perhaps  the  best  way  is  to  receive  the  expectorated  mat- 
ter into  cloths,  which  may  be  burned,  or  the  material  may  be  re- 
ceived into  one  of  the  various  forms  of  sputum  cups  and  finally 
burned  or  disinfected.  Persons  with  pulmonary  tuberculosis 
should  be  warned  against  the  possible  danger  to  others  of  coughing 
without  holding  the  handkerchief  before  the  mouth  and  nose ;  under 
no  circumstances  should  they  spit  upon  the  floor. 


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3.  Rooms  occupied  by  tuberculosis  patients  should  be  kept 
clean  and  disinfected  from  time  to  time.  Open  cases  of  tubercu- 
losis should  not  be  cared  for  in  the  home  except  when  not  other- 
wise avoidable. 

4.  It  is  urged  that  all  physicians  and  others  be  diligent  in 
searching  out  and  reporting  all  cases  of  tuberculosis  in  the  early 
stages  of  the  disease  in  order  that  the  patient  may  have  the  benefit 
of  care  and  treatment  at  a  time  when  his  case  has  not  become  hope- 
less and  in  order  that  members  of  his  family  and  other  persons 
coming  in  contact  with  him  may  observe  proper  precautions 
against  infection, 

5.  It  should  be  borne  in  mind  that  it  is  the  concensus  of 
opinion  of  a  majority  of  authorities,  that  tuberculosis  is  essentially 
a  disease  of  childhood. 


Treatment  of  Indigent  Crippled  Children. 

Ins.  No.  24.  The  State  Board  of  Health,  under  the  provisions  of 
Chapter  No.  6133  of  the  Laws  of  1911,  is  authorized  to  treat  indi- 
gent crippled  children,  of  Florida. 

This  service  has  been  called  the  Orthopedic  Service  of  the  State 
Board  of  Health. 

The  Orthopedic  Service,  of  the  State  Board  of  Health,  is  under 
the  direction  of  Doctor  J.  Knox  Simpson,  Surgeon  in  Charge. 

Arrangements  have  been  perfected  with  St.  Luke's  Hospital, 
Jacksonville,  Florida,  in  which  institution  the  cases  are  given  the 
necessary  care  and  attention. 

It  is  requested,  by  the  State  Board  of  Health,  that,  before  cases 
are  sent  to  St.  Luke's  Hospital  for  treatment,  authority  be  obtained 
from  the  State  Health  Officer  who  will,  upon  application,  forward 
certain  blanks  which  must  be  properly  filled  out  before  authority 
will  be  given  for  receiving  the  case. 

Under  all  conditions,  it  is  required  that  transportation  to  and 
from  Jacksonville  be  paid  by  relatives  or  friends  of  the  patient  as 
there  is  no  legal  authority  for  payment  of  transportation  charges 
for  crippled  children  from  the  funds  of  the  State  Board  of  Health 
of  Florida. 


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Treatment  of  Indigent  Cancer  Cases. 

Ins.  No.  25.  The  State  Board  of  Health  has  been  desirous  of 
offering  free  treatment  for  indigent  cancer  cases. 

It  was  developed  that  the  expenditure  of  State  Board  of  Health 
funds  for  this  purpose  is  illegal. 

Arrangements  have  been  perfected  with  Doctor  Gerry  R. 
Holden,  Jacksonville,  Florida,  who  has  kindly  consented  to  treat 
with  radium  a  limited  number  of  female,  inoperable  cancer  cases 
without  expense  to  the  State  Board  of  Health. 

Only  women  who  are  regarded  as  having  inoperable  cancer 
are  offered  this  free  radium  treatment. 

The  profession  is  earnestly  requested  to  not  send  any  cancer 
cases  to  Jacksonville  for  treatment  except  upon  specific  authority 
from  the  State  Health  Officer  who  will,  upon  application,  send 
certain  forms  which  must  be  properly  filled  out  before  authority 
for  receiving  the  case  is  given. 

Rule  No.  26.  (69.)  Regulating  the  Manufacture,  Importation 
and  Bottling  of  Waters.  Sec.  1.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every 
manufacturer,  importer,  bottler  or  other  person,,  firm  or  corpora- 
tion, manufacturing,  bottling  or  importing  in  the  State  of  Florida, 
any  artificial  or  natural  mineral,  spring  or  other  water  for  drinking 
purposes  to  file,  on  or  before  each  January  tenth,  under  oath,  with 
the  State  Board  of  Health,  the  name  of  such  water  and  the  exact 
location  from  which  it  is  obtained,  together  with  the  bacteriological 
examination  thereof. 

Sec.  2.  No  person,  persons,  firm  or  corporation  shall  manu- 
facture or  bottle  mineral,  carbonated,  spring  or  natural  waters  in 
the  State  of  Florida  without  a  permit  from  the  State  Board  of 
Health.  No  permit  shall  be  required,  however,  where  the  city 
water  supply  is  conducted  through  closed  pipes  and  connected 
with  a  carbonated  apparatus,  from  which  it  is  dispensed  directly  to 
the  consumer,  without  coming  in  contact  with  the  air  and  not 
handled  in  any  way.  The  State  Board  of  Health,  however,  reserves 
the  right  to  revoke  any  permit  or  permits  at  any  time  when,  after 
a  thorough  investigation  and  examination  the  domestic  use  of  the 


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water  of  any  person,  persons,  firm  or  corporation  shall  appear  to 
it  to  be  a  menace  to  the  public  health. 

Sec.  3.  It  shall  further  be  the  duty  of  every  manufacturer, 
bottler,  importer  or  other  person,  firm  or  corporation  manufactur- 
ing, bottling  or  importing  in  the  State  of  Florida  any  artificial, 
natural  mineral,  spring  or  other  water  for  drinking  purposes,  to 
provide  the  State  Board  of  Health  with  two  bottled  samples,  as 
prepared  for  sale  on  the  market,  at  frequent  intervals  for  labora- 
tory examination  as  to  purity. 

Sec.  4.  Any  person,  persons,  firm  or  corporation  violating  any 
of  the  provisions  of  the  above  sections  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of 
a  misdemeanor  and  upon  conviction  thereof  forfeit  his  or  its  permit 
or  pay  a  penalty  not  to  exceed  two  hundred  dollars  or  both  at  the 
discretion  of  the  court. 

Sec.  5.  All  regulations  or  rules  in  conflict  herewith  are  re- 
pealed. 

Rule  No.  27.  (71.)  Providing  for  sanitation  of  markets,  gro- 
cery stores,  drug  stores,  fruit  stands,  hotels,  restaurants  or  any  other 
place  where  foods,  fruits,  drinks  or  ice  cream  are  prepared,  kept  or 
offered  for  sale  and  providing  a  penalty  for  the  violation  of  the 
same. 

Be  it  ordained  that: 

Section  1.  All  places  preparing,  keeping,  dispensing  or  offering 
for  sale  foods,  fruits,  ice  creams,  soft  drinks  or  other  substances  in- 
tended for  human  consumption  except  those  in  sealed  bottles  or 
other  sealed  containers,  shall  have  all  doors,  windows  or  other 
openings  thoroughly  screened  with  wire  netting  of  such  a  mesh  as 
to  prevent  the  access  of  flies. 

Sec.  2.  The  District  Health  Officer  or  any  other  duly  author- 
ized authority  of  the  State  Board  of  Health  may  or  shall,  follow- 
ing due  notification,  post  a  placard  on  any  insanitary  market,  gro- 
cery store,  drug  store,  fruit  stand,  hotel,  restaurant  or  any  other 
place  where  foods,  fruits,  drinks  or  ice  cream  are  prepared,  kept  or 
offered  for  sale. 

Sec.  3.  That  any  person  who  shall  violate,  disobey,  refuse, 
omit  or  neglect  to  comply  with  this  rule  of  the  State  Board  of 
Health  made  by  it  in  pursuance  of  Chapter  5931  (No.  62)  Laws  of 


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Florida,  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and  upon  conviction 
thereof,  shall  be  punished  by  imprisonment  not  exceeding  thirty 
days  or  a  fine  not  exceeding  fifty  dollars. 

Rule  No.  28.  (72.)  Governing  the  preparation,  sale  and  vending 
of  foods  in  the  State  of  Florida  and  providing  a  penalty  for  the 
violation  of  the  same. 

Be  it  ordained  that: 

Section  1.  All  foods  offered  for  sale  in  the  State  of  Florida  shall 
be  prepared  in  such  a  manner  as  to  meet  the  approval  of  a  duly 
authorized  inspector  of  the  State  Board  of  Health. 

Sec.  2.  All  premises  surrounding  places  where  foods  are  kept, 
prepared  or  offered  for  sale  shall  be  approved  by  a  duly  authorized 
inspector  of  the  State  Board  of  Health. 

Sec.  3.  All  foods  for  sale  shall  be  kept  in  and  oft'ered  to  the 
public  only  in  such  a  manner  as  may  be  prescribed  by  a  duly 
authorized  authority  of  the  State  Board  of  Health. 

Sec.  4.  That  any  person  who  shall  violate,  disobey,  refuse, 
omit  or  neglect  to  comply  with  this  rule  of  the  State  Board  of 
Health,  made  by  it  in  pursuance  of  Chapter  5931  (No.  62),  Laws  of 
Florida,  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and  upon  conviction 
thereof,  shall  be  punished  by  imprisonment  not  exceeding  thirty 
days  or  by  a  fine  not  exceeding  fifty  dollars. 

Rule  No.  29.  (7Z.)  Controlling  Water  and  Sewage  Treatment 
Plants.  Sec.  1.  The  Superintendent,  owner  or  operator  of  all 
water  supply  and  sewage  treatment  plants,  either  privately  or 
municipally  owned  or  controlled  where  water  for  human  consump- 
tion or  sewage  is  treated  in  any  manner  by  filtration,  chlorination 
or  the  addition  of  chemicals  shall  submit  weekly  to  the  State  Board 
of  Health,  or  as  often  as  may  be  deemed  necessary  by  the  State 
Health  Officer,  daily  records  of  treatment  plant  operation.  These 
data  will  include  daily  amount  of  chlorine  or  other  chemicals  used, 
the  daily  quantity  of  water  or  sewage  treated,  the  daily  pumpage, 
the  rate  of  filtration,  daily  loss  of  head,  and  any  other  data  as  may 
be  required  on  forms  furnished  to  water  and  sewage  plant  opera- 
tors by  the  State  Board  of  Health. 

Sec.  2.  Any  responsible  person  as  noted  above  failing  to  sub- 
mit records  as  prescribed  in  Section  1  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a 


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misdemeanor  and  upon  conviction  thereof  pay  a  penalty  not  to 
exceed  $100.00  or  suffer  imprisonment  or  both  at  the  discretion  of 
the  court. 

Sec.  3.  All  regulations  or  rules  in  conflict  herewith  are  re- 
pealed. 

Rule  No.  30.  (74.)  For  Sewage  Plant  Operators.  1.  Annually, 
during  the  month  of  January,  the  city  clerk  of  every  incorporated 
city  or  town  wherein  a  sewage  treatment  plant  is  located  shall 
submit  to  the  Bureau  of  Engineering  of  the  State  Board  of  Health, 
on  a  form  furnished  by  it,  the  name  of  the  individual  responsible  for 
the  proper  operation  of  the  sewage  treatment  plant.  Upon  occur- 
rence of  a  vacancy,  or  change  of  responsibility,  the  city  clerk  shall 
promptly  notify  the  State  Board  of  Health  of  such  a  change. 

2.  Sewage  treatment  plants  in  the  scope  of  this  rule  include 
any  and  all  devices  for  the  receiving,  storing,  screening  and  modify- 
ing of  sewage. 

Rule  No.  31.  (75.)  For  the  Control  of  Sanitation  and  Cleanli- 
ness of  Camps  in  Incorporated  Towns  Within  the  State  of  Florida. 

Section  1.     All  camp  sites  shall  be  dry  and  well  drained. 

Sec.  2.  An  adequate  supply  of  potable  drinking  water  shall  be 
provided  on  camp  grounds.  Water  from  wells  other  than  a  public 
supply  shall  not  be  used  until  it  has  been  approved  by  the  State 
Board  of  Health. 

Sec.  3.  Waste  liquids  and  slops  shall  be  disposed  of  in  a  man- 
ner approved  by  the  State  Board  of  Health,  so  as  not  to  create  a 
nuisance,  attract  or  breed  flies. 

Sec.  4.  Sewer  connected,  water  supplied,  properly  flushed  water 
closets  shall  be  provided  where  sewer  connections  are  possible. 

Sec.  5.  Where  sewer  connections  are  not  possible,  sanitary  fly- 
proof  privies  approved  by  the  State  Board  of  Health  or  specified 
by  the  ordinance  of  the  city  wherein  the  camp  is  located  shall  be 
provided. 

Sec.  6.  All  garbage  and  refuse  shall  be  stored  in  metal  cans 
with  tight  covers  and  ishall  be  removed  from  the  premises  and  dis- 
posed of  daily. 


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Sec.  7.  Garbage  and  refuse  shall  be  disposed  of  by  incinera- 
tion or  burial. 

Any  camper  violating  any  of  these  above  sections  shall  be 
deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and  upon  conviction,  be  fined  no 
less  than  ten  dollars  ($10.00).  Each  and  every  violation  shall  be 
considered  a  separate  offense  punishable  by  fine. 

Rule  No.  32.  (80).  For  the  Control  of  Sanitation  and  Cleanli- 
ness of  Camps  Within  the  State  of  Florida.  Sec.  1.  Campers 
shall  select  sites  which  are  dry  and  well  drained. 

Sec.  2.  Campers  shall  not  use  for  drinking  purposes  water 
from  pools,  ponds,  lakes,  ditches,  dug  wells  or  other  surface  sources 
without  first  filtering  and  boiling  same  thoroughly.  Water  from 
deep  wells  should  be  used  in  preference  to  other  waters. 

Sec.  3.  All  campers  shall  provide  a  straddle  pit  for  the  dis- 
posal of  human  discharges  and  other  wastes.  When  leaving  a 
camp  site  all  straddle  and  refuse  pits  shall  be  filled  with  earth. 

Sec.  4.  All  camp  sites  must  be  kept  clean  and  free  from  all 
accumulations  of  refuse.  All  refuse  shall  be  collected  at  a  suit- 
able point  for  disposal  by  burning  or  burial.  All  tin  cans  shall  be 
crushed  and  buried. 

Any  camper  violating  any  of  these  above  sections  shall  be 
deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and  upon  conviction  be  fined  no 
less  than  ten  dollars  ($10.00).  Each  and  every  violation  shall  be 
considered  a  separate  offense  punishable  by  fine. 

Rule  No.  33.  (78.)  Common  Drinking  Cups  Prohibited  in 
Public  Places.  Section  1.  The  use  of  the  common  drinking  cup  or 
common  receptacle  for  drinking  water  in  any  public  place,  park,  or 
square,  or  in  any  public  institution,  hotel,  theater,  factory,  depart- 
ment or  other  store,  public  hall,  or  public  school,  or  in  any  railway 
station  in  the  State  of  Florida  or  the  furnishing  of  such  common 
drinking  cup  or  common  receptacle  for  use  of  any  such  place  as 
herein  mentioned  is  hereby  prohibited. 

Sec.  2.  Any  person,  firm,  or  corporation  violating  any  of  the 
provisions  of  this  ordinance  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misde- 
meanor and  upon  conviction  thereof  shall  be  punishable  by  a  fine  of 
not  exceeding  $50  or  by  imprisonment  in  the  county  jail  not  to 
exceed  30  days,  or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment. 


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Rule  No.  34.  (79.)  Common  Towels  Prohibited  in  Public 
Places.  Section  1.  That  no  person,  firm  or  corporation  in  the 
State  of  Florida  shall  hang  or  place,  or  cause  or  permit  to  be  hung 
or  placed,  any  towel,  or  other  material  which  could  be  used  for  the 
purpose  of  a  towel,  in  any  place  in  any  store,  building,  hotel, 
restaurant,  church,  hall,  factory,  theater,  or  other  public  place  where 
more  than  one  person  could  use  the  same  for  said  purposes.  Pro- 
vided, That  this  ordinance  shall  not  apply  to  paper  towels  which 
are  to  be  discarded  after  use  by  one  individual,  or  towels  of  such 
size  that  they  can  properly  be  used  but  once,  and  if  placed  in 
sufficient  quantity  to  accommodate  all  persons  who  may  make  use 
of  them. 

Sec.  2.  Any  violation  of  this  ordinance  shall  be  punished  by 
a  fine  not  exceeding  $50. 

Rule  No.  35.  (76.)  For  Sanitation  and  Cleanliness  of  Barbet 
Shops.  Section  1.  Each  barber  shall  at  all  times  be  supplied  with 
hot  and  cold  water.  If  a  heating  or  storage  tank  is  used  the  open- 
ing at  the  top  of  the  tank  must  not  exceed  two  inches  in  diameter. 
The  dipping  of  towels,  mugs,  tools  or  utensils  of  any  kind  in  hot 
or  cold  water  tank  is  prohibited. 

Sec.  2.  All  cups,  lather  brushes,  and  tools  must  be  thoroughly 
cleansed  in  hot  water  in  each  instance  before  using. 

Sec.  3.  Hair  brushes  and  all  other  brushes  must  be  kept  in 
a  clean  and  thoroughly  sanitary  condition  at  all  times. 

Sec.  4.  Nothing  but  fresh  laundered  towels,  including  dry 
towels,  steam  towels,  or  wash  cloths  shall  be  used  for  each  patron. 
The  head  rest  must  be  covered  with  a  fresh  paper  before  using  for 
each  patron.  In  cutting  the  hair  of  any  person  a  newly  laundered 
towel  shall  be  placed  about  the  neck  so  as  to  prevent  the  hair  cloth 
touching  the  skin. 

Sec.  5.  All  razors,  shears,  clippers  or  other  instruments  used  in 
cutting  the  hair,  shaving  the  face  or  neck  of  a  person  sufifering  from 
any  eruption  must  be  thoroughly  sterilized  immediately  after  use 
with  hypochlorite  solution  or  other  disinfectants  of  similar 
strength  and  germicidal  power.  All  tweezers,  needles,  massage 
applicators  and  other  instruments  of  this  kind  must  be  thoroughly 
sterilized  both  before  and  after  use. 


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Sec.  6.  The  use  of  styptic  pencils,  finger  bowls,  powder  puffs, 
and  sponges  is  positively  forbidden.  The  use  of  styptic  powder  and 
individual  applicators  is  permitted. 

Sec.  7.  No  barber  having  a  communicable  disease,  including 
open  tuberculosis,  syphilis  in  its  infectious  stage  or  granulated  eye 
lids  shall  be  permitted  to  work  in  a  barber  shop. 

Sec.  8.  Every  barber  shop  shall  be  provided  with  cuspidors 
made  of  impervious  material  and  such  cuspidors  shall  be  kept  in  a 
clean,  sanitary  condition. 

Sec.  9.  No  barber  shop  shall  be  used  as  a  sleeping  room  or 
dormitory. 

Sec.  10.  All  tools,  instruments,  or  appliances  shall  be 
thoroughly  sterilized  immediately  after  their  use  upon  any  sick 
person. 

Sec.  11.  No  barber  shop  shall  use  any  comb,  brush,  tool  or 
other  article  on  the  living  that  has  been  employed  in  the  care  of  a 
dead  body. 

Sec.  12.  A  copy  of  these  regulations  shall  be  posted  in  a  con- 
spicuous place  in  each  barber  shop. 

N  Rule  No.  36.     Sanitation  of  Schools — Air  Space  and  Ventilation. 

Section  1.  Every  school  room  shall  have  not  less  than  15  square 
feet  of  floor  space,  and  not  less  than  200  cubic  feet  of  air  space  per 
pupil.  In  auditoriums  at  least  7  square  feet  of  floor  area  per  person 
shall  be  provided. 

Sec.  2.  In  every  school  room  the  total  light  area  shall  equal 
at  least  20  per  cent  of  the  floor  space,  and  the  light  shall  not  be  ad- 
mitted thereto  from  the  front  of  seated  pupils. 

Sec.  3.  Every  school  room  must  be  provided  with  ample 
means  of  ventilation.  All  windows  shall  admit  of  ready  adjust- 
ment at  both  top  and  bottom.  Every  school  room  shall  be  equipped 
with  a  thermometer. 

Sec.  4.  The  air  in  any  school  room  shall  be  kept  at  all  times 
in  a  wholesome  condition.  At  least  30  cubic  feet  per  person  per 
minute  shall  be  provided  in  class  rooms  and  15  cubic  feet  in  audi- 
toriums. 

Sec.  5.  Toilets  shall  be  provided  in  buildings  in  accordance 
with  the  following  plan : 


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Elementary  School  High  School 

Boys  toilet  seats  1  for  each  25  boys         1  for  each  33  boys 

Boys  urinals  1  for  each  15  boys  1  for  each  20  boys 

Girls  toilet  seats  1  for  each  15  girls  1  for  each  20  girls 

Window  area  in  toilet  rooms  shall  be  equal  to  20  per  cent  of 
the  floor  area. 

Sec.  6.  Where  bubbling  fountains  are  used,  only  those  of  an 
approved  type  shall  be  used.  One  fountain  shall  be  provided  for 
every  80  children. 

Sec.  7.  Every  school,  public  or  private,  shall  be  furnished  at 
all  times  when  in  use  with  an  adequate  supply  of  pure,  fresh  drink- 
ing water.  This  shall  be  running  water  wherever  such  water  is 
available.  If  running  water  is  not  available,  a  tank  or  cooler  shall 
be  supplied,  furnished  with  a  spigot  or  bubbler. 

Sec.  8.  If  no  satisfactory  bubbling  fountain  be  provided  at  the 
school,  every  pupil  in  attendance  shall  be  required  to  have  and  to 
use  an  individual  cup  which  shall  be  for  his  own  exclusive  use. 
The  use  of  the  common  drinking  cup  at  any  school  is  hereby  for- 
bidden under  all  circumstances. 

Sec.  9,  The  well,  spring  or  cistern  from  which  water  is  drawn 
for  drinking  purposes  at  the  school  must  be  safely  protected  against 
pollution. 

Rule  No.  37.  Sanitation  of  Public  Buildings.  Section  1.  Every 
church,  hall,  theater  or  other  building  used  for  public  meetings 
shall  be  kept  at  all  times  in  a  clean  and  sanitary  condition.  Every 
such  building  shall  be  provided  with  proper  means  for  maintain- 
ing the  purity  of  the  atmosphere  while  in  use  and  such  means  must 
be  employed  at  all  times. 

Sec.  2.  All  buildings  used  for  public  meetings  shall  be  cleaned 
after  each  meeting  held  in  them,  such  cleaning  to  consist  of 
thorough  sweeping  of  floors  and  wiping  of  woodwork,  together 
with  the  opening  of  all  windows  and  doors  to  permit  the  entrance 
of  fresTi  air  and  sunshine.  No  such  building  or  room  shall  be 
swept  without  first  sprinkling  the  floor  with  water  or  throwing  on 
it  damp  sawdust  or  other  absorbent  material  to  prevent  dust. 
Woodwork  shall  be  wiped  down  with  a  damp  cloth,  and  dry  dust- 


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ing  with  feathers  or  dry  cloths  shall  not  be  practiced.  In  con- 
struing this  rule  all  meetings  held  during  the  course  of  a  single 
day  shall  be  l^egarded  as  one  meeting. 

Sec.  3.  An  ample  number  of  spittoons  or  cuspidors  shall  be 
furnished,  which  shall  contain  sufficient  water  to  stand  one-half 
inch  deep  on  the  bottom.  They  shall  be  emptied,  washed  and 
disinfected  with  an  approved  disinfectant  after  each  day's  use. 

Rule  No.  38.  Governing  the  Specifications  for  Septic  Tanks  and 
Absorption  Beds  for  the  Treatment  of  Sewage  at  Residences.  Sec- 
tion 1.  Septic  tanks  for  residential  use  installed  in  Florida  shall 
conform  to  the  following  specifications : 

(a)  The  tank  shall  be  constructed  of  durable,  non-corrosive 
material,  absolutely  impervious  to  water  and  resistant  to  decay. 

(b)  Concrete  tanks  shall  be  thoroughly  waterproofed  on  the 
inside,  or  constructed  of  cement  mixed  with  a  standard  water- 
proofing element.  No  concrete  shall  be  used  having  a  weaker  texture 
or  consistency  than  1 :2  :4,  that  is,  one  part  by  volume  of  cement, 
two  parts  by  volume  of  sand  and  four  parts  by  volume  of  stone. 
Commercial  concerns  shall  file  a  sworn  statement  with  the  State 
Board  of  Health  of  the  concrete  consistency. 

(c)  In  the  construction  of  concrete  tanks  standard  methods 
and  specifications  shall  be  followed  as  regards  materials,  tools  and 
mixing  procedure. 

(d)  Commercial  tanks  (shall  be  fully  guaranteed  not  to  leak 
when  laid  down  at  the  point  of  installation,  and  shall  be  tested  for 
leakage  before  installation. 

(e)  Tanks  shall  consist  of  two  or  more  chambers  connected 
by  a  bafifled  weir,  overflow  pipe  and  orifice  properly  located.  Two 
or  more  tanks  may  be  connected  together  in  series  by  means  of 
overflow  elbows  and  pipe. 

(f)  No  tank  shall  be  placed  less  than  50  feet,  if  possible,  from 
a  well,  spring,  or  other  source  of  domestic  water  supply. 

(g)  The  minimum  effective  capacities  of  tanks  shall  be  50  gal- 
lons of  sewage  per  person  per  24  hours.  The  length  of  tank  shall  be 
about  twice  its  width  and  the  minimum  effective  depth  about  three 
feet.  No  tank  shall  have  an  effective  sewage  capacity  of  less  th-an 
200  gallons. 


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Sec,  2.  The  drainage  or  absorption  bed  from  the  septic  tank 
shall  conform  to  the  following: 

(a)  Drains  shall  be  of  cement  or  agricultural  tile,  laid  with 
loose  abutting  joints.  Joints  shall  be  covered  with  sections  of  tar 
paper  previous  to  refilling  of  the  pipe  trench. 

(b)  To  insure  distribution  and  absorption,  in  clay  and  other 
non-porous  soils,  the  drains  shall  be  laid  on  a  bed  of  coarse  gravel 
or  cinders,  6  inches  in  depth,  to  the  full  width  of  the  trench. 

Where  drains  are  laid  in  coarse,  deep  and  porous  sand  the 
gravel  or  cinder  bed  may  be  omitted. 

(c)  Drains  shall  be  of  4  inch  diameter  or  greater.    ' 

(d)  Absorption  drain  lines  shall  be  laid  not  less  than  6  feet 
apart,  and  laid  with  inverts  not  less  than  12  inches  deep  in  the  soil. 

(e)  The  minimum  grade  for  drain  lines  shall  be  2  inches  per 
100  feet. 

(f)  In  sandy  porous  soil  not  less  than  10  feet  of  tile  per  person 
shall  be  laid.  In  clay  and  non-porous  soil  not  less  than  25  feet  of 
tile  per  person  shall  be  laid. 

Sec.  3.  Concerns  engaged  in  the  business  of  promoting  and 
selling  sewage  disposal  units  in  Florida  shall  file  with  the  State 
Board  of  Health  at  the  end  of  each  month  in  which  sales  are  made, 
the  names  and  addresses  of  all  persons  purchasing  and  installing 
their  equipment.  (This  is  to  enable  the  Board  to  keep  a  check  on 
various  tank  operations  and  accomplishments). 

Suggestion :  At  places  where  considerable  grease  is  produced, 
the  tanks  should  be  preceded  by  an  approved  grease  trap. 

Note :  Sewage  septic  tanks  for  use  at  schools  and  other  public  buildings  should  not 
have  the  same  unit  capacity  as  given  in  the  foregoing  rule.  Roughly  it  may  be  stated  that 
tanks  for  such  public  places  should  be  designed  on  a  unit  basis  of  10-15  gallons  per  capita 
per  24  hours.     In  case  of  doubt  at  any  time,  consult  the  State  Board  of  Health. 

Rule  No.  39.  Governing  the  Production  and  Handling  of  Milk 
and  the  Management  of  Dairies  in  the  State  of  Florida  and  Provid- 
ing for  the  Enforcement  of  Same.  Sec.  1.  A  dairy  as  used  in  this 
regulation  is  any  place  where  milk  or  cream  is  handled,  offered  for 
sale  or  given  away. 

Sec.  2.  All  dairies  shall  be  provided  with  a  pure  water  supply 
frequently  examined  and  approved  by  the  State  Board  of  Health. 

Sec.  3.     Every  dairy  shall  be  provided  with  a  sanitary  system 


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of  sewage  or  excreta  disposal,  either  a  sanitary  privy  or  septic  tank 
of  such  design  as  is  approved  by  the  State  Board  of  Health. 

Sec.  4.  Every  dairy  shall  be  provided  with  a  milk  house  which 
shall  be  a  separate  building  located  away  from  any  source  of  con- 
tamination and  for  a  single  cow  dairy,  shall  have  a  minimum  floor 
plan  dimensions  of  six  by  eight  feet  and  at  least  ten  by  ten  feet  for 
dairies  having  more  than  one  cow.  The  milk  house  shall  have  a 
cement  floor,  shall  be  properly  screened  and  have  a  screen  door 
opening  outward  provided  with  a  suitable  spring  to  keep  it  closed 
at  all  times.  Interior  construction  shall  be  of  smooth  finish.  There 
shall  be  racks  for  cans  and  bottles,  so  built  that  when  these  utensils 
are  inverted  on  them,  their  mouths  shall  be  open  to  the  air.  All 
milk  rooms  shall  be  washed  out  frequently  with  water  containing 
chloride  of  lime. 

Sec.  5.  The  dairy  barn  shall  be  reasonably  clean,  well  venti- 
lated and  shall  preferably  have  a  cement  floor.  All  newly  con- 
structed dairy  barns  shall  be  provided  with  cement  floors. 

Sec.  6.  Following  each  milking,  all  manure  shall  be  removed 
from  the  cow  barn  to  a  point  at  least  200  feet  distant  and  these 
accumulations  shall  be  removed  often  enough  to  prevent  fly 
breeding. 

Sec.  7.  All  cows  shall  be  healthy  and  free  from  disease;  they 
shall  be  tuberculin  tested.  They  shall  be  kept  clean ;  the  udders 
and  teats  shall  be  washed,  and  dried  with  a  clean  cloth  before 
milking. 

Sec.  8.  All  milking  shall  be  done  with  clean,  dry  hands  into  a 
fishmouth  milk  pail  having  an  opening  not  to  exceed  eight  by  three- 
fourths  inches.     No  other  types  are  approved. 

Sec.  9.  Since  dairy  utensils  are  a  highly  important  source  of 
bacterial  contamination  of  milk,  it  is  required  that  they  be  washed 
and  sterilized  promptly  after  using  them,  for  otherwise  bacteria 
multiply  in  them  in  such  numbers  as  to  make  it  almost  impossible 
for  the  dairyman  to  sterilize  them  with  the  methods  he  ordinarily 
has  at  his  disposal.  All  metal  dairy  utensils  shall  be  in  first  class 
condition  and  the  seams  filled  flush  with  solder.  Previous  to  use, 
all  utensils  shall  be  rinsed  in  lukewarm  or  cold  water,  they  shall 
then  be  washed  in  hot  water  containing  an  alkaline  wash  powder, 
after  which  they  shall  be  sterilized  either  with  live  steam  or  boil- 


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ing  water.  Strainer  cloths  shall  always  be  boiled  before  use  and 
dried  quickly.  When  not  in  use  all  utensils  shall  be  kept  inverted 
and  they,  together  with  strainer  cloths,  shall  be  protected  from 
flies  and  dust. 

Sec.  10.  All  pasteurizing  shall  be  done  between  142  and  145 
degrees  F.,  for  not  less  than  30  minutes  not  more  than  45,  and  a 
recording  thermometer  shall  always  be  used  on  the  pasteurizing 
machine.    Temperature  charts  shall  be  kept  for  at  least  six  weeks. 

Sec.  11.  All  milk  shall  be  delivered  iwithin  two  hours  from  the 
time  it  is  drawn  from  the  cow  or  it  shall  be  cooled  and  held  at  a 
temperature  not  above  50  degrees  F.  until  delivered.  No  milk  shall 
be  delivered  from  uncovered  vehicles  unless  the  packages  of  milk 
are  covered  with  a  tarpaulin. 

Sec.  12.  Every  case  of  communicable  disease  occurring  in  a 
dairy  or  in  the  family  of  any  person  handling  milk  shall  be  im- 
mediately reported  to  the  nearest  City  Health  Officer  or  to  the  State 
Board  of  Health,  giving  details. 

Sec.  13.  In  case  of  infectious  disease  occurring  on  a  dairy  farm 
the  State  Health  Officer  shall  have  authority  to  prohibit  the  sale 
of  milk  or  milk  products  from  such  a  dairy,  if,  in  his  judgment,  it 
may  be  a  carrier  of  infection  and  until  such  time  as  he  may  direct. 

Sec.  14.  Any  duly  authorized  representative  of  a  city  health 
department  or  of  the  State  Board  of  Health  shall  be  permitted  at 
any  time  to  enter  any  dairy  to  see  that  the  provisions  of  this  regu- 
lation are  carried  out. 

Sec.  15.  Any  person,  firm  or  corporation  failing  to  comply 
with  the  foregoing  provisions  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misde- 
meanor and  when  convicted  shall  be  fined  in  the  sum  of  not  less 
than  $5.00  or  more  than  $50.00,  or,  shall  be  suspended  from  opera- 
tion of  the  dairy,  and  each  time  that  such  person,  persons,  firm  or 
corporation  neglects,  fails  or  refuses  to  comply  with  any  of  the  pro- 
visions of  this  regulation,  shall  be  deemed  a  separate  ofifense  and 
punished  as  herein  provided. 

Rule  40.  {77 .)  Standard  Railway  Sanitary  Code.  I,  Transpor- 
tation of  Persons  Having  Communicable  Diseases.  Section  1. 
Persons  Not  Allowed  to  Travel.  No  person  knowing  or  suspecting 
himself  to  be  afflicted  with  plague,  cholera,  smallpox,  typhus  fever, 


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or  yellow  fever  shall  apply  for,  procure,  or  accept  transportation 
in  any  railway  train,  car,  or  other  conveyance  of  a  common  car- 
rier; nor  shall  any  person  apply  for,  procure,  or  accept  such  trans- 
portation for  any  minor,  ward,  patient,  or  other  person  under  his 
charge  if  known  or  suspected  to  be  so  afflicted. 

Sec.  2.  Persons  Not  Accepted  for  Travel.  Common  carriers 
shall  not  accept  for  transportation  in  any  railway  train,  car,  or 
other  conveyance  any  person  known  by  them  to  be  afflicted  with 
any  of  the  diseases  enumerated  in  section  1. 

Sec.  3.  Restricted  Travel.  Common  carriers  shall  not  accept 
for  transportation  on  any  railway  train,  car,  or  other  conveyance 
any  person  known  by  them  to  be  afflicted  with  diphtheria,  measles^, 
scarlet  fever,  epidemic  cerebrospinal  meningitis,  anterior  poliomye- 
litis, mumps,  whooping  cough,  influenza,  pneumonia,  epidemic 
encephalitis,  septic  sore  throat,  rubella,  or  chickenpox,  or  any 
person  known  to  be  a  carrier  of  these  diseases,  unless  such  person 
is  placed  in  a  compartment  separate  from  other  passengers,  is  ac- 
companied by  a  properly  qualified  nurse  or  other  attendant,  and 
unless  such  nurse  or  attendant  shall  agree  to  comply  and  does  so 
comply  with  the  following  regulations : 

(a)  Communication  with  the  compartment  within  which  the 
patient  is  traveling  shall  be  restricted  to  the  minimum  consistent 
with  the  proper  care  and  safety  of  the  patient. 

(b)  All  dishes  and  utensils  used  by  the  patient  shall  be  placed 
in  a  5  per  cent  solution  of  carbolic  acid  or  other  fluid  of  equivalent 
disinfecting  value  for  at  least  one  hour  after  they  have  been  used 
and  before  being  allowed  to  leave  the  compartment. 

(c)  All  sputum  and  nasal  discharges  from  the  patient  shall  be 
received  in  gauze  or  paper,  which  shall  be  deposited  in  a  paper  bag 
or  in  a  closed  vessel,  and  shall  be  destroyed  by  burning. 

(d)  Said  nurse  or  attendant  shall,  after  performing  any  service 
to  the  patient,  at  once  cleanse  the  hands  by  washing  them  in  a  2 
per  cent  solution  of  carbolic  acid  or  other  fluid  of  equivalent  disin- 
fecting value. 

Sec.  4.  Typhoid  and  Dysentery.  Common  carriers  shall  not 
accept  for  transportation  on  any  railway  train,  car,  or  other  convey- 
ance any  person  known  by  them  to  be  afflicted  with  typhoid  fever, 


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para-typhoid  fever,  or  dysentery,  unless  said  person  is  placed  in  a 
compartment  separate  from  other  passengers,  is  accompanied  by  a 
properly  qualified  nurse  or  other  attendant,  and  unless  said  nurse 
or  attendant  shall  agree  to  comply  and  does  so  comply  with  the 
following  regulations : 

(a)  Communication  with  the  compartment  in  which  the 
patient  is  traveling  shall  be  limited  to  the  minimum  consistent  with 
the  proper  care  and  safety  of  the  patient. 

(b)  All  dishes  and  utensils  used  by  the  patient  shall  be  placed 
in  a  5  per  cent  solution  of  carbolic  acid  or  other  fluid  of  equivalent 
disinfecting  value  for  at  least  one  hour  after  they  have  been  used 
and  before  being  allowed  to  leave  the  compartment. 

(c)  All  urine  and  feces  of  the  patient  shall  be  received  into  a 
5  per  cent  solution  of  carbolic  acid  or  other  fluid  of  equivalent 
disinfecting  value,  placed  in  a  covered  vessel,  thoroughly  mixed, 
and  allowed  to  stand  for  at  least  two  hours  after  the  last  addition 
thereto  before  being  emptied. 

(d)  A  sheet  of  rubber  or  other  impervious  material  shall  be 
carried  and  shall  be  spread  between  the  sheet  and  the  mattress  of 
any  bed  that  may  be  used  by  the  patient  while  in  transit. 

(e)  Said  nurse  or  attendant  shall  use  all  necessary  precautions 
to  prevent  the  access  of  flies  to  the  patient  or  his  discharges,  and 
after  performing  any  service  to  the  patient  shall  at  once  cleanse 
the  hands  by  washing  them  in  a  2  per  cent  solution  of  carbolic  acid 
or  other  fluid  of  equivalent  disinfecting  value. 

(f)  Provided,  That  if  a  person  with  typhoid  or  dysentery  is 
presented  at  a  railway  station  in  ignorance  of  these  regulations  and 
his  transportation  is  necessary  as  a  life-saving  or  safeguarding 
measure,  an  emergency  may  be  declared  and  the  patient  may  be 
carried  a  reasonable  distance  in  a  baggage  car  if  accompanied  by 
an  attendant  responsible  for  his  care  and  removal :  Provided  also. 
That  regulations  (a),  (b),  (c),  (d)  and  (e)  of  this  section  shall  be 
complied  with  in  so  far  as  the  circumstances  will  allow,  and  that  all 
bedding,  clothing,  rags,  or  cloths  used  by  the  patient  shall  be  re- 
moved with  him :  And  provided  further,  That  any  parts  of  the 
car  which  have  become  contaminated  by  any  discharges  of  the 
patient  shall  be  disinfected  as  soon  as  practicable,  but  not  later 
than  the  end  of  the  run,  by  washing  with  a  5  per  cent  solution  of 
carbolic  acid  or  other  fluid  of  equivalent  disinfecting  value. 


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Sec.  5.  Restricted  Application  for  Transportation.  No  person 
knowing  or  suspecting  himself  to  be  afflicted  with  any  of  the 
diseases  mentioned  in  Sections  3  and  4  shall  apply  for,  procure,  or 
accept  transportation  in  any  railway  train,  car,  or  other  convey- 
ance of  a  common  carrier,  nor  shall  any  person  apply  for,  procure, 
or  accept  such  transportation  for  any  minor,  ward,  patient,  or  other 
person  under  his  charge  if  known  or  suspected  to  be  so  afflicted 
unless  he  shall  have  agreed  to  and  made  all  necessary  arrange- 
ments for  complying,  and  does  so  comply,  with  the  regulations  set 
forth  in  said  Sections  3  and  4. 

Sec.  6.  Suspected  Cases.  If  a  conductor  or  other  person  in 
charge  of  a  railway  train,  car,  or  other  conveyance  of  a  common 
carrier,  or  an  agent  or  other  person  in  charge  of  a  railway  station, 
shall  have  any  reason  to  suspect  that  a  passenger  or  a  person  con- 
templating passage  is  afflicted  with  any  of  the  diseases  enumerated 
in  Sections  1,  3  and  4,  he  shall  notify  the  nearest  health  officer,  or 
company  physician  if  the  health  officer  is  not  available,  by  the 
quickest  and  most  practicable  means  possible,  of  his  suspicion ;  and 
said  health  officer  or  physician  shall  immediately  proceed  to  the 
train,  car,  or  other  conveyance  at  the  nearest  possible  point,  or  to 
the  railway  station,  to  determine  whether  such  disease  exists. 

Sec.  7.  Disposition.  If  the  health  officer  or  physician,  as  pro- 
vided for  in  Section  6,  shall  find  any  such  person  to  be  afflicted 
with  any  of  the  diseases  enumerated  in  Sections  1,  3  and  4,  he  shall 
remove  such  person  from  the  station  or  conveyance,  or  shall  isolate 
him  and  arrange  for  his  removal  at  the  nearest  convenient  point; 
shall  treat  the  car  or  other  conveyance  as  infected  premises,  allow- 
ing it  to  proceed  to  a  convenient  place  for  proper  treatment  if  in 
his  judgment  consistent  with  the  public  welfare,  in  such  case  notify- 
ing the  health  officer  in  whose  jurisdiction  the  place  is  located; 
and  shall  take  such  other  measures  as  will  protect  the  public  health ; 
Provided,  That  if  not  prohibited  in  Sections  1  and  2  of  these  regu- 
lations the  afflicted  person  so  found  may  be  allowed  to  continue 
his  travel  if  arrangements  are  made  to  comply,  and  he  does  so  com- 
ply, with  the  requirements  of  the  section  of  these  regulations  per- 
taining to  the  disease  with  which  he  is  afflicted. 


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Sec.  8.  Leprosy.  Common  carriers  shall  not  accept  for  trans- 
portation nor  transport  in  any  railway  train,  car,  or  other  convey- 
ance any  person  known  by  them  to  be  afflicted  with  leprosy,  unless 
such  person  presents  permits  from  the  Surgeon  General  of  the 
United  States  Public  Health  Service  or  his  accredited  representa- 
tive, and  from  the  State  Board  of  Health  of  the  States  from  which 
and  to  which  he  is  traveling,  stating  that  such  person  may  be  re- 
ceived under  such  restrictions  as  will  prevent  the  spread  of  the 
disease,  and  said  restrictions  shall  be  specified  in  each  instance; 
and  no  person  knowing  or  suspecting  himself  to  be  afflicted  with 
leprosy,  nor  any  person  acting  for  him,  shall  apply  for,  procure,  or 
accept  transportation  from  any  common  carrier  unless  such  per- 
mits have  been  received  and  are  presented,  and  unless  the  person 
so  afflicted  agrees  to  comply  and  does  so  comply  with  the  restric- 
tions ordered.  If  any  agent  of  a  common  carrier  shall  suspect  that 
any  person  in  a  train,  car,  or  other  conveyance,  or  at  a  railway 
station,  is  afflicted  with  leprosy,  he  shall  proceed  as  directed  in  the 
case  of  other  suspected  diseases  in  Sections  6  and  7  of  these  regula- 
tions. 

Sec.  9.  Pulmonary  Tuberculosis.  Common  carriers  shall  not 
accept  for  transportation  any  person  known  by  them  to  be  afflicted 
with  pulmonary  tuberculosis  in  a  communicable  stage  unless  said 
person  is  provided  with  (a)  a  sputum  cup  made  of  impervious 
material  and  so  constructed  as  to  admit  of  being  tightly  closed 
when  not  in  use,  (b)  a  sufficient  supply  of  gauze,  papers,  or  similar 
articles  of  the  proper  size  to  cover  the  mouth  and  nose  while  cough- 
ing or  sneezing,  (c)  a  heavy  paper  bag  or  other  tight  container  for 
receiving  the  soiled  gauze,  paper,  or  similar  articles  ;  and  unless  such 
person  shall  obligate  himself  to  use  the  articles  provided  for  in  the 
manner  intended,  and  to  destroy  said  articles  by  burning  or  to 
disinfect  them  by  immersing  for  at  least  one  hour  in  a  5  per  cent 
solution  of  carbolic  acid  or  other  solution  of  equivalent  disinfecting 
value;  nor  shall  any  person  knowing  himself  to  be  so  afflicted 
apply  for,  procure,  or  accept  transportation  unless  he  shall  have 
agreed  to  and  made  all  necessary  arrangements  for  complying  and 
does  so  comply  with  the  regulations  as  set  forth  in  this  section. 

Sec.  10.     Conveyances     Vacated     by     Infected     Persons,     Im- 


Ill 

mediately  after  vacation  by  a  person  having  any  of  the  diseases 
mentioned  in  Sections  1,  3,  4  and  8,  any  berth,  compartment,  or 
stateroom  should  be  closed  and  not  again  occupied  until  properly 
cleaned  and  disinfected,  and  all  bedding,  blankets,  and  linen  in  any 
such  space  should  be  laundered  or  otherwise  thoroughly  cleaned 
and  disinfected  before  being  again   used. 


II.     WATER  AND  ICE  SUPPLIES. 

Sec.  11.  Water  to  be  Certified  Water  provided  by  common 
carriers  for  drinking  or  culinary  purposes  in  railway  trains,  cars, 
or  other  conveyances  or  in  railway  stations  shall  be  taken  from 
supplies  certified  by  the  United  States  Public  Health  Service  as 
meeting  the  required  standards  of  purity  and  safety  prescribed  by 
the  Interstate  Quarantine  Regulations  of  the  United  States. 

Sec.  12.  Ice.  Ice  used  for  cooling  water  provided  as  in  Section 
11  shall  be  clear  natural  ice,  ice  made  from  distilled  water,  or  ice 
made  from  water  certified  as  aforesaid ;  and  before  the  ice  is  put 
into  the  water  it  shall  be  washed  with  water  of  known  safety  and 
handled  in  such  manner  as  to  prevent  its  becoming  contaminated 
by  the  organisms  of  infectious  diseases  :  Provided,  That  the  fore- 
going shall  not  apply  to  ice  that  does  not  come  in  contact  with  the 
water  to  be  cooled. 

Sec.  13.  Water  Containers.  Water  containers  in  newly  con- 
structed cars  and  those  newly  installed  in  stations  shall  be  so  con- 
structed that  ice  for  cooling  does  not  com_e  in  contact  with  the 
water  to  be  cooled:  Provided,  That  after  July  1,  1922,  all  water 
containers  in  cars  and  stations  shall  be  so  constructed  that  ice 
does  not  come  in  contact  with  the  water. 

Sec.  14.  Care  of  Water  Containers.  All  water  containers 
where  water  and  ice  are  put  into  the  same  compartment  shall  be 
thoroughly  cleansed  at  least  once  in  each  week  that  they  are  in 
use.  All  water  containers  and  water  storage  tanks  shall  be 
thoroughly  drained  and  flushed  at  intervals  of  not  more  than  one 
month. 


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Sec.  15.  Filling  Water  Containers.  Portable  hose  or  tubing 
that  is  used  for  filling  drinking-water  containers,  or  car  storage 
tanks  from  which  such  containers  are  filled,  shall  have  smoo'th 
metal  nozzles,  which  shall  be  protected  from  dirt  and  contamina- 
tion, and  before  the  free  end  or  nozzle  of  said  hose  or  tubing  is  put 
into  the  water  container  or  car  storage  tank  it  shall  be  flushed  and 
washed  by  a  plentiful  stream  of  water. 


III.     CLEANING  AND  DISINFECTION  OF  CARS. 

Sec.  16.  General.  All  railway  passenger  cars  or  other  public 
conveyances  shall  be  kept  in  a  reasonably  clean  and  sanitary  con- 
dition at  all  times  when  they  are  in  service,  to  be  insured  by  me- 
chanical cleaning  at  terminals  and  lay-over  points. 

Sec.  17.  Cleaning.  All  day  coaches,  parlor  cars,  buffet  cars, 
dining  cars,  and  sleeping  cars  shall  be  brushed,  swept,  and  dusted 
at  the  end  of  each  round  trip,  or  at  least  once  in  each  day  they  are 
in  service,  and  shall  be  thoroughly  cleaned  at  intervals  of  not  more 
than  seven  days. 

Sec.  18.  Thorough  Cleaning.  Thorough  cleaning  shall  con- 
sist of  scrubbing  the  exposed  floors  with  soap  and  water;  similarly 
scrubbing  the  toilets  and  toilet-room  floors ;  wiping  down  the  wood- 
work with  moist  or  oiled  cloths ;  thorough  dusting  of  upholstery 
and  carpets  by  beating  and  brushing,  or  by  means  of  the  vacuum 
process  or  compressed  air;  washing  or  otherwise  cleaning  windows; 
and  the  thorough  airing  of  the  car  and  its  contents. 

Sec.  19.  Odors  in  Cars.  When  offensive  odors  appear  in 
toilets  or  other  parts  of  the  car  which  are  not  obliterated  and  re- 
moved by  cleaning  as  in  Section  18,  said  toilets  or  other  parts  of 
the  car  shall  be  treated  with  a  1  per  cent  solution  of  formaldehyde 
or  other  odor-destroying  substance. 

Sec.  20.  Vermin  in  Cars. — Whenever  a  car  is  known  to  have 
become  infested  with  bedbugs,  lice,  fleas,  or  mosquitoes,  such  car 
shall  be  so  treated  as  to  effectively  destroy  such  insects,  and  it- 
shall  not  be  used  in  service  until  such  treatment  has  been  given. 


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IV.     CARS  IN  SERVICE. 

Sec.  21.  Cleaning.  The  cleaning  of  cars  while  occupied  shall 
be  limited  to  the  minimum  consistent  with  the  maintenance  of 
cleanly  conditions,  and  shall  be  carried  out  so  as  to  cause  the  least 
possible  raising  of  dust  or  other  annoyance  to  passengers. 

Sec.  22.  Sweeping.  Dry  sweeping  of  the  interior  of  a  car  in 
transit  with  an  ordinary  broom  is  prohibited. 

Bee.  23.  Dusting.  Dry  dusting  of  the  interior  of  a  car  in  tran- 
sit is  prohibited. 

Sec,  24.  Brushing.  The  brushing  of  passengers'  clothing  in 
the  body  of  the  car  in  transit  is  prohibited. 

Sec.  25.  Drinking  Cups.  Individual  drinking  cups  in  sufficient 
number  shall  be  supplied  in  all  cars,  and  the  use  of  common  drink- 
ing cups  is  prohibited. 

Sec.  26.  Towels.  The  supplying  of  roller  towels  or  other 
towels  for  common  use  in  cars  is  prohibited. 

Sec.  27.  Comb  and  Brush.  The  supplying  of  combs  and 
brushes  for  common  use  in  cars  is  prohibited. 

Sec.  28.  Spitting.  Spitting  on  the  floors,  carpets,  walls,  or 
other  parts  of  cars  by  passengers  or  other  occupants  of  them  is 
prohibited. 

Sec.  29.  Cuspidors.  An  adequate  supply  of  cuspidors  shall  be 
provided  in  all  sleeping  cars,  smoking  cars,  and  smoking  compart- 
ments of  cars  while  in  service.  Said  cuspidors  shall  be  cleaned  at 
the  end  of  each  trip,  and  oftener  if  their  condition  requires. 

Sec.  30.  Brushing  of  Teeth.  Spitting  or  blowing  the  nose  into 
or  brushing  the  teeth  over  wash  basins  in  cars  is  prohibited.  Sepa- 
rate basins  for  brushing  the  teeth  shall  be  provided  in  the  wash 
rooms  of  sleeping  cars. 


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Sec.  31.  Drinking  Water  and  Ice.  Drinking  water  and  ice  on 
railway  cars  shall  be  supplied  in  accordance  with  the  conditions  set 
forth  in  Sections  11,  12,  13,  14  and  15  of  these  regulations. 

Sec.  32.  Ventilation  and  Heating.  All  cars  when  in  service 
shall  be  provided  with  an  adequate  supply  of  fresh  air,  and  in  cold 
weather  shall  be  heated  so  as  to  maintain  comfort.  When  artificial 
heat  is  necessary,  the  temperature  should  not  exceed  70°  F.,  and 
in  sleeping  cars  at  night  after  passengers  have  retired  it  should  not 
exceed  60°  F. 

Sec.  33.  Toilets  in  Cars,  A  proper  toilet  room  and  lavatory 
shall  be  provided  in  all  railway  passenger  cars,  express  cars,  mail 
cars,  and  baggage  cars  for  the  use  of  their  occupants.  Such  toilets 
shall  be  supplied  with  toilet  paper,  soap,  and  free  or  pay  clean 
towels,  and  shall  be  kept  in  a  clean  and  sanitary  condition. 

Sec.  34.  Toilets  to  be  Locked.  The  toilet  rooms  in  all  railway 
cars  shall  be  locked  or  otherwise  protected  from  use  while  trains 
are  standing  at  stations,  passing  through  cities,  or  passing  over 
watersheds  draining  into  reservoirs  furnishing  domestic  water 
supplies,  unless  adequate  water-tight  containers  are  securely  placed 
under  the  discharge  pipe.  The  State  health  authority  having  juris- 
diction shall  designate  the  area  of  watersheds  that  may  be  affected 
by  pollution  from  railroads  and  shall  notify  the  managing  officers 
of  railroads  as  to  the  points  between  which  all  toilets  shall  be 
locked. 

Sec.  35.  Toilets  in  Dining  Cars.  A  proper  toilet  room  and 
lavatory  shall  be  provided  in  all  dining  cars  for  the  use  of  dining- 
car  employees,  and  the  same  shall  be  supplied  with  toilet  paper, 
soap,  and  clean  towels,  and  shall  be  kept  in  a  clean  and  sanitary 
condition.  Such  toilet  room  shall  have  no  direct  connection  with 
the  kitchen,  pantry,  or  other  place  where  food  is  prepared.  The 
word  "dining  car"  as  used  in  these  regulations  shall  be  held  to  in- 
clude all  cars  in  which  food  is  prepared  and  (served. 

Sec.  36.  Dining  Cars  to  be  Screened.  Dining  cars  shall  be 
screened  against  the  entrance  of  flies  and  other  insects,  and  it  shall 


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be  the  duty  of  dining:-car  employees  to  destroy  flies  or  other  insects 
that  may  gain  entrance. 

Sec.  Z7.  Dining-car  Employees  to  Cleanse  Hands.  Dining-car 
employees  shall  thoroughly  cleanse  their  hands  by  washing  with 
soap  and  water  after  using  a  toilet  or  urinal  and  immediately  before 
beginning  service. 

Sec.  38.  Care  of  Tableware.  All  cooking,  table  and  kitchen 
utensils,  drinking  glasses,  and  crockery  used  in  the  preparation  or 
serving  of  food  or  drink  in  dining  cars  shall  be  thoroughly  washed 
in  boiling  water  and  suitable  cleansing  material  after  each  time  they 
are  used. 

Sec.  39.  Food  Containers.  Refrigerators,  food  boxes,  or  other 
receptacles  for  the  storing  of  fresh  food  in  dining  and  buffet  cars 
shall  be  emptied  and  thoroughly  washed  with  soap  and  hot  water 
at  least  once  in  each  seven  days  that  they  are  in  use. 

Sec.  40.  Food  and  Milk.  No  spoiled  or  tainted  food,  Avhether 
cooked  or  uncooked,  shall  be  served  in  any  dining  car;  and  no  milk 
or  milk  products  shall  be  served  unless  the  milk  has  been 
pasteurized  or  boiled. 

Sec.  41.  Garbage.  Garbage  cans  in  sufficient  number  and 
with  suitable  tight-fitting  covers  shall  be  provided  in  dining  cars 
to  care  for  all  refuse  food  and  other  wastes,  and  such  wastes  shall 
not  be  thrown  from  the  car  along  the  right  of  way. 

Sec.  42.  Dining-car  Inspection.  The  person  in  charge  of  the 
dining  car  shall  be  responsible  for  compliance  with  all  dining-car 
regulations,  and  he  shall  make  an  inspection  of  the  car  each  day 
for  the  purpose  of  maintaining  a  rigorous  cleanliness  in  all  por- 
tions thereof. 

Sec.  43.  Examination  of  Food  Handlers.  No  person  shall 
serve  as  a  cook,  waiter,  or  in  any  other  capacity  in  the  prepara- 
tion or  serving  of  food  in  a  dining  car  who  is  known  or  suspected 
to  have  any  dangerous  communicable  disease.  All  persons  em- 
ployed for  such  service  shall  undergo  a  physical  examination  by 
a  competent  physician  before  being  assigned  to  service,  and  before 


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returning  to  work  after  any  disabling  illness,  and  at  such  other 
times  during  their  service  as  may  be  necessary  to  determine  their 
freedom  from  such  diseases,  and  shall  be  immediately  relieved 
from  service  if  found  to  be  so  afflicted. 


V.     RAILWAY  STATIONS. 

Sec.  44.  General.  All  railway  stations,  including  their  waiting 
rooms,  lunch  rooms,  restaurants,  wash  rooms,  and  toilets,  shall  be 
kept  in  a  clean  and  sanitary  condition  at  all  times,  to  be  insured  by 
mechanical  cleaning  at  regular  intervals. 

Sec.  45.  Cleaning,  All  waiting  rooms  and  other  rooms  used 
by  the  public  shall  be  swept  and  dusted  daily;  and  at  intervals  of 
not  more  than  seven  days  the  floor  shall  be  scrubbed  with  soap  and 
water,  and  the  seats,  benches,  counters,  and  other  woodwork  shall 
be  similarly  scrubbed,  or  shall  be  rubbed  down  with  a  cloth 
moistened  with  oil.  ^ 

Sec.  46.  Sweeping.  If  sweeping  is  done  while  rooms  are  oc- 
cupied or  open  to  occupancy  by  patrons,  the  floor  shall  be  first 
sprinkled  with  wet  sawdust  or  other  dust-absorbing  material. 

Sec.  47.  Dusting.  If  dusting  is  done  while  rooms  are  occu- 
pied or  open  to  occupancy  by  patrons,  it  shall  be  done  only  with 
cloths  moistened  with  water,  oil,  or  other  dust-absorbing  material. 

Sec.  48.  Spitting.  Spitting  on  the  floors,  walls,  seats,  or  plat- 
forms of  railway  stations  is  prohibited. 

Sec.  49.  Cuspidors.  In  all  waiting  rooms  where  smoking  is 
permitted  an  adequate  supply  of  cuspidors  shall  be  provided;  such 
cuspidors  shall  be  cleaned  daily,  and  oftener  if  their  condition  re- 
quires. 

Sec.  50.  Common  Cups.  Individual  drinking  cups  in  sufficient 
number  shall  be  supplied  in  all  stations,  and  the  use  of  common 
drinking  cups  is  prohibited. 


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Sec.  51.  Common  Towels.  The  supplying  of  roller  towels 
or  other  towels  for  common  use  in  railway  stations  is  prohibited. 

Sec.  52.  Combs  and  Brushes.  The  supplying  of  combs  and 
brushes  for  common  use  in  railway  stations  is  prohibited. 

Sec.  53.  Toilet  Facilities.  All  railway  stations  where  tickets 
are  sold  shall  provide  adequate  toilet  facilities,  of  a  design  approved 
by  the  State  Board  of  Health,  for  the  use  of  patrons  and  employees; 
and  there  shall  be  separate  toilets  for  each  of  the  two  sexes. 

Sec.  54.  Station  Toilets.  If  a  railway  station  is  located  within 
300  feet  of  a  public  sewer,  water-flushing  toilets  shall  be  installed 
and  permanently  connected  with  such  sewer,  and  a  wash  basin  or 
basins  shall  be  located  near  the  toilet  and  similarly  connected ;  and 
such  toilets  and  lavatories  shall  be  kept  in  repair  and  in  good  work- 
ing order  at  all  times. 

Sec.  55.  Care  of  Toilets.  All  toilets  installed  as  set  forth  in 
Section  54  shall  be  cleaned  daily  by  scrubbing  the  floors,  bowls, 
and  seats  with  soap  and  water. 

Sec.  56.  Odors  in  Toilets.  When  offensive  odors  appear  in 
toilets  which  are  not  obliterated  and  removed  by  cleaning  as  in 
Section  55,  said  toilets  shall  be  treated  with  a  2  per  cent  solution 
of  formaldehyde  or  other  odor-destroying  substance. 

Sec.  57.  Toilet  Supplies.  Toilets  and  wash  rooms  installed  as 
set  forth  in  Section  54  shall  be  constantly  furnished  with  an  ade- 
quate supply  of  toilet  paper,  soap,  and  free  or  pay  clean  towels. 

Sec.  58.  Privies.  If  no  sewer  connection  is  available  as  set 
forth  in  Section  54,  a  sanitary  privy  of  a  design  approved  by  the 
State  Board  of  Health  shall  be  maintained  within  a  reasonable  dis- 
tance from  the  station.  Such  privy  shall  be  adequately  protected 
against  the  entrance  of  flies,  shall  be  kept  supplied  with  toilet  paper, 
the  seats  shall  be  kept  clean,  and  the  vaults  shall  be  treated  with 
sodium  hydrate  or  other  approved  disinfectant  at  least  once  in  each 
week  and  shall  be  cleaned  out  and  emptied  at  such  intervals  as 
will  avoid  the  development  of  a  nuisance. 


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Sec.  59.  Drinking  Water  and  Ice.  Drinking  water  and  ice  in 
railway  stations  shall  be  supplied  in  accordance  with  Sections  11, 
12,  13,  14  and  15  of  these  regulations. 

Sec.  60.  Water  Not  Usable  for  Drinking.  If  water  which  does 
not  conform  to  the  standards  set  forth  in  Section  11  of  these  regula- 
tions is  available  at  any  tap  or  hydrant  or  in  a  railway  station,  a 
notice  shall  be  maintained  on  each  such  tap  or  hydrant  which 
shall  state  in  prominent  letters,  "Not  fit  for  drinking." 

Sec.  61.  Drinking  Fountains.  If  drinking  fountains  of  the 
bubbling  type  are  provided  in  any  railway  station,  they  shall  be  so 
made  that  the  drinking  is  from  a  free  jet  projected  at  an  angle  to 
the  vertical  and  not  from  a  jet  that  is  projected  vertically  or  that 
flows  through  a  filled  cup  or  bowl. 

Sec.  62.  Refuse  Cans.  At  all  railway  stations  where  there  is 
an  agent  there  shall  be  provided  and  maintained  an  adequate  supply 
of  open  or  automatically  closing  receptacles  for  the  deposition  of 
refuse  and  rubbish,  and  such  receptacles  shall  be  emptied  daily 
and  kept  reasonably  clean  and  free  from  odor. 

Sec.  63.  Cisterns,  Cesspools,  Etc,  All  cisterns,  water-storage 
tanks,  and  cesspools  in  or  about  railway  stations  shall  be  ade- 
quately screened  against  the  entrance  of  mosquitoes,  and  all  col- 
lections of  surface  water  on  station  property  shall  be  drained  or 
oiled  during  the  season  of  mosquito  flight,  to  prevent  the  breeding 
of  mosquitoes. 

Sec.  64.  Restaurants  to  be  Screened.  All  restaurants  and 
lunch  rooms,  or  other  places  where  food  is  prepared  or  served  in  a 
railway  station,  shall  have  doors  and  windows  adequately  screened 
against  the  entrance  of  flies  during  the  season  of  flight  of  these 
insects ;  and  all  food  on  display  or  storage  racks  shall  be  adequately 
covered. 

Sec.  65.  Lavatories  for  Restaurants.  A  lavatory  of  easy  and 
convenient  access  shall  be  provided  for  the  use  of  employees  in 
every  restaurant  or  lunch  room  in  any  railway  station,  and  it  shall 


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be  provided  with  an  adequate  supply  of  water,  soap,  and  clean 
towels. 

Sec.  66.  Restaurant  Employees.  Restaurant  employees  who 
are  engaged  in  the  preparing  or  serving  of  food  shall  thoroughly 
cleanse  their  hands  by  washing  with  soap  and  water  after  using  a 
toilet  or  urinal  and  immediately  before  beginning  service. 

Sec.  67.  Kitchen  and  Table  Utensils,  All  cooking,  table,  and 
kitchen  utensils,  drinking  glasses,  and  crockery  used  in  the  prepara- 
tion or  serving  of  food  or  drink  in  railway  restaurants  or  lunch 
rooms  shall  be  thoroughly  washed  in  boiling  water  and  suitable 
cleaning  material  after  each  time  they  are  used. 

Sec.  68.  Food  containers.  Refrigerators,  food  boxes,  or  other 
receptacles  for  the  storing  of  fresh  food  in  railway  restaurants  or 
lunch  rooms  shall  be  emptied  and  thoroughly  washed  with  soap  and 
hot  water  at  least  once  in  each  seven  days  that  they  are  in  use. 

Sec.  69.  Garbage.  Garbage  cans  in  sufficient  number  and  with 
suitable  tight-fitting  covers  shall  be  provided  in  all  restaurants 
and  lunch  rooms  to  care  for  all  refuse  food  and  other  wastes,  and 
such  cans  shall  be  emptied  daily  in  an  approved  place  and  kept  in  a 
clean  and  sanitary  condition. 

Sec.  70.  Restaurant  Inspection.  The  manager,  chief,  or  other 
person  in  charge  of  any  railway  restaurant  or  lunch  room  shall  be 
responsible  for  compliance  with  all  regulations  pertaining  thereto, 
and  he  shall  make  an  inspection  of  the  premises  daily  for  the  pur- 
pose of  maintaining  a  rigorous  cleanliness  in  all  parts  thereof. 

Sec.  71.  Station  Inspection.  The  agent,  manager,  or  other 
person  in  charge  of  any  railway  station  shall  be  responsible  for 
compliance  with  all  regulations  pertaining  thereto,  and  he  shall 
make,  or  have  made  by  a  responsible  person  reporting  to  him,  fre- 
quent inspections  of  the  premises  for  the  purpose  of  maintaining  a 
rigorous  compliance  with  all  such  regulations. 

Sec.  72.     Examination    of    Food    Handlers.     No    person    shall 


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serve  as  a  cook,  waiter,  or  in  any  other  capacity  in  the  preparation 
or  serving  of  food  in  a  railway  restaurant  or  lunch  room  who  is 
known  or  suspected  to  have  any  dangerous  communicable  disease. 
All  persons  employed  for  such  service  shall  undergo  a  physical 
examination  by  a  competent  physician  before  being  assigned  to 
service,  and  before  returning  to  work  after  any  disabling  illness,  and 
at  such  other  times  during  their  service  as  may  be  necessary  to 
determine  their  freedom  from  such  diseases,  and  shall  be  immedi- 
ately relieved  from  service  if  found  to  be  so  afflicted. 


VI.     CONSTRUCTION  CAMPS. 

Sec.  73.  Definition.  For  the  purposes  of  these  regulations  rail- 
way construction  camps  shall  be  considered  to  include  all  camps 
and  similar  places  of  temporary  abode,  including  those  on  wheels, 
established  by  or  for  the  care  of  working  forces  engaged  in  the  con- 
struction, repair,  or  alteration  of  railway  properties  or  parts  there- 
of: Provided,  that  camps  which  are  occupied  by  less  than  five  peo- 
ple, or  camps  which  are  established  to  meet  emergency  conditions 
and  are  not  occupied  longer  than  five  days,  shall  not  be  included 
except  that  Section  90  of  these  regulations  shall  apply  to  them. 

Sec.  74.  General.  All  camps  shall  be  so  located  and  so  main- 
tained as  to  be  conducive  to  the  health  of  their  occupants  and  not  to 
endanger  the  health  of  the  public ;  and  all  tents,  houses,  stables,  or 
other  structures  therein  shall  be  kept  in  a  reasonably  clean  and 
sanitary  condition  at  all  times. 

Sec.  75.  Location.  Camps,  except  those  on  wheels,  should  be 
located  on  high,  well-drained  ground ;  any  natural  sink  holes,  pools, 
or  other  surface  collections  of  water  in  the  immediate  vicinity 
should  be  drained  and  filled  when  the  camp  is  first  established ;  and 
all  such  water  not  subject  to  complete  drainage  should  have  the 
surface  oiled  at  intervals  of  not  more  than  seven  days  during  the 
season  of  mosquito  flight.  , 

Sec.  76.  Arrangement.  The  general  scheme  of  relations  of  the 
structures  of  a  camp  should  be  as  follows :  The  kitchen  should  be 
located  at  one  end  of  the  camp ;  next  to  this  should  be  the  eating 


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quarters,  then  the  sleeping  quarters,  then  the  toilets  for  the  men, 
then  the  stable,  thus  bringing  the  kitchen  and  the  stable  at  opposite 
ends  of  the  camp,  which  should  be  as  far  apart  as  is  consistent  with 
the  natural  topography  and  the  necessity  for  convenient  access. 

Sec.  77 .  Water  Supplies.  All  water  supplies  for  camps  shall 
be  properly  chlorinated,  unless  obtained  from  a  source  which  had 
been  approved  by  the  State  Board  of  Health. 

Sec.  78.  Water  Containers.  All  drinking-water  containers  in 
camps  shall  be  securely  closed  and  so  arranged  that  water  can  be 
drawn  only  from  a  tap,  and  said  containers  shall  be  kept  clean  and 
free  from  contamination. 

Sec.  79.  Garbage  and  Refuse.  All  garbage,  kitchen  wastes, 
and  other  rubbish  in  camps  shall  be  deposited  in  suitably  covered 
receptacles  the  contents  of  which  shall  be  emptied  and  burned 
each  day;  and  manure  from  the  stables  shall  be  likewise  collected 
and  burned  each  day,  or  disposed  of  in  some  other  manner  ap- 
proved by  the  State  Board  of  Health. 

Sec.  80.  Scavenger.  In  all  camps  where  there  are  100  men  or 
more  there  shall  be  one  employee  whose  duty  shall  be  to  act  as 
scavenger  and  garbage  collector. 

Sec.  81.  Toilets.  Every  camp  shall  have  an  adequate  num- 
ber of  latrines  and  urinals,  so  constructed  and  maintained  as  to  pre- 
vent fly  breeding  and  the  pollution  of  water,  and  the  use  of  such 
latrines  and  urinals  by  the  inhabitants  of  the  camp  shall  be  made 
obligatory.  Latrines  and  urinals  may  consist  of  deep  trenches 
covered  with  houses  adequately  screened  against  flies,  or  of  any 
other  type  approved  by  the  State  Board  of  Health.  They  shall 
not  be  located  within  less  than  200  feet  of  any  spring,  stream,  lake, 
or  reservoir  forming  part  of  a  public  or  private  water  supply. 

Sec.  82.  Washing  Facilities.  There  shall  be  provided  in  all 
camps  adequate  washing  facilities  for  the  use  of  the  occupants 
thereof. 

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houses  of  all  camps  shall  be  effectively  screened  against  the 
entrance  of  flies  and  mosquitoes  during  the  seasons  of  flight  of  these 
insects. 

Sec.  84.  Care  of  Tableware.  All  cooking,  table,  and  kitchen 
utensils,  drinking  glasses,  and  crockery  used  in  the  preparation  or 
serving  of  food  or  drink  in  camps  shall  be  thoroughly  washed  in 
boiling  water  and  suitable  cleansing  material  after  each  time  they 
are  used. 

Sec.  85.  Food  Containers.  Refrigerators,  food  boxes,  or  other 
receptacles  for  the  storing  of  fresh  food  in  camps  shall  be  emptied 
and  thoroughly  washed  with  soap  and  hot  water  at  least  once  in 
each  seven  days  that  they  are  in  use. 

Sec.  86.  Food  and  Milk.  No  soiled  or  tainted  food,  whether 
cooked  or  uncooked,  shall  be  served  in  any  camp,  and  no  milk  or 
milk  products  shall  be  served  unless  the^milk  has  been  pasteurized 
or  boiled. 

Sec.  87.  Examination  of  Food  Handlers.  No  person  shall  serve 
as  a  cook,  waiter,  or  in  any  other  capacity  in  the  preparation  or 
serving  of  food  in  any  camp  who  is  known  or  suspected  to  have  any 
dangerous  communicable  disease.  All  persons  employed  for  such 
service  shall  undergo  a  physical  examination  by  a  competent  phy- 
sician before  being  assigned  to  service,  and  before  returning  to 
work  after  any  disabling  illness,  and  at  such  other  times  during 
their  service  as  may  be  necessary  to  determine  their  freedom  from 
such  diseases,  and  shall  be  immediately  relieved  from  service  if 
found  to  be  so  afflicted. 

Sec.  88.  Sick  Persons.  When  an  occupant  of  a  camp  becomes 
sick  with  a  dangerous  communicalble  disease  he  shall  be  immedi- 
ately isolated,  and  the  health  officer  within  whose  jurisdiction  the 
camp  is  located  shall  be  immediately  notified. 

Sec.  89.  Vermin.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  some  one  appointed 
as  caretaker  of  the  camp  to  make  regular  weekly  inspections  of  the 
occupants  and  premises  in  order  to  ascertain  the  presence  of  lice 


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or  other  vermin.  Persons  found  to  be  infested  shall  be  required  to 
bathe,  and  their  clothing  shall  be  boiled ;  and  premises  found  to  be 
infested  shall  be  fumigated  with  sulphur  or  treated  by  some  other 
effective  vermin-destroying  method. 

Sec.  90.  Abandoned  Camps.  When  any  camp  is  to  be  aban- 
doned, all  garbage,  rubbish,  and  manure  shall  be  collected  and 
burned,  the  latrine  trenches  filled,  and  the  grounds  and  buildings 
shall  be  left  in  a  clean  and  sanitary  condition. 

Sec.  91.  Duty  to  Enforce  Regulations.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of 
the  superintendent,  foreman,  or  other  person  in  charge  of  a  camp 
to  see  that  all  regulations  pertaining  thereto  are  faithfully  com- 
plied with. 

Rule  No.  41.  Disinfection  and  Disinfectants.  Section  1.  In 
disinfecting  premises  following  death,  recovery  or  removal  of  a 
patient  affected  with  any  communicable  disease,  the  health  officer 
in  charge  of  disinfection  shall  not  depend  wholly  upon  fumigation 
for  cleansing  the  premises,  as  a  gaseous  disinfectant,  even  when  the 
room  is  tightly  sealed,  often  kills  only  the  germs  upon  the  surface 
and  does  not  penetrate  deeply. 

Sec.  2.  Scrubbing  with  soap  and  water,  wiping  all  floors  and 
woodwork  with  disinfectant  solution,  boiling  all  material  that  may 
properly  be  boiled  and  sunning  and  airing  all  bedding  which  can- 
not be  boiled  shall  be  included  in  disinfection. 

Sec.  3.  Fumigation  shall  consist  in  liberating  sulphur  dioxide 
gas  in  a  room  tightly  sealed  with  gummed  paper  or  with  cotton 
batting  and  so  remaining  for  at  least  six  hours. 

Sec.  4.  In  fumigating  with  sulphur,  three  pounds  of  sulphur 
must  be  used  for  every  1,000  cubic  feet  of  room  space.  The  room 
so  fumigated  must  remain  closed  for  24  hours.  (When  fumigating 
with  sulphur  it  should  be  remembered  that  the  fumes  will  take  the 
color  from  dyed  fabrics  and  may  tarnish  highly-polished  metals. 
Sulphur  fumigation,  however,  is  especially  recommended  after 
smallpox,  infantile  paralysis  and  typhus  fever,  or  where  it  is  de- 
sired to  kill  insects.) 

Sec.  5.     For  a  strong  solution  used  in  disinfecting  stools  and 


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badly  infected  vessels,  fabrics,  etc.,  the  following  should  be  used: 

Carbolic  acid 50  parts 

Mix  and  add  fresh  water 900  parts 

Any  proprietary  disinfectant  which  (1)  has  a  carbolic  co- 
efficient of  two  or  more  as  determined  by  the  Standard  of  the 
United  States  Hygienic  Laboratory  and  which  (2)  is  used  as  di- 
rected on  the  container. 


WEAKER  APPROVED  SOLUTION 

Sec.  6.  For  any  ordinary  purposes  the  following  weaker 
solution  may  be  used : 

Carbolic  acid 25  parts 

Fresh  water 1000  parts 

DISINFECTION  OF  MATERIALS 

Sec.  7.  Materials  shall  be  disinfected  as  follows :  Sheets, 
towels,  linens  and  white  goods  shall  be  disinfected  by  boiling  for 
at  least  10  minutes.  Bedding  or  woolen  goods  which  cannot  be 
boiled  should  be  disinfected  by  fumigation  or  soaked  for  two 
hours  in  one  of  the  above  disinfectant  solutions. 

China,  glass  and  crockery  shall  be  disinfected  by  boiling  for  at 
least  ten  minutes. 

Furniture  and  woodwork  shall  be  disinfected  by  wiping  with 
a  standard  disinfectant  solution. 

Mattresses  used  by  smallpox  cases  should  be  burned. 

Handkerchiefs,  rags  and  other  materials  of  small  value,  soiled 
with  discharges  from  diphtheria,  scarlet  fever  or  smallpox,  shall 
be  burned. 

Rule  No.  42.  In  accordance  with  provisions  of  Chapter  7825, 
No.  43,  Laws  of  Florida,  the  following  regulations  governing  the 
construction  and  operation  of  public  swimming  pools  have  been 
adopted  by  the  State  Board  of  Health : 

Section  1.     The  water  in  the  pool  and  that  applied  to  it  shall 


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at  all  times  have  a  sanitary  quality  acceptable  to  the  State  Board 
of  Health.  (New  water  shall  preferably  flow  through  the  pool 
continuously  during  its  operation  period  at  a  minimum  quantity 
of  400  gallons  per  person  per  day  considered  on  a  basis  of  the 
average  daily  attendance).  Fill  and  draw  pools  shall  be  emptied 
and  thoroughly  cleaned  at  least  once  weekly  and  at  any  other  time 
the  weekly  bathing  load  of  such  pool  exceeds  20.  Such  pools  shall 
also  be  disinfected  by  an  approved  method  daily  between  cleaning 
periods,  and  if  deemed  necessary  by  a  duly  constituted  authority 
of  the  State  Board  of  Health,  at  more  frequent  intervals.  (Disinfec- 
tion shall  be  governed  largely  by  number  of  pool  users). 

Sec.  2.  The  weekly  bathing  load  of  fill  and  draw  pools  shall 
not  exceed  20.  (To  ascertain  the  weekly  bathing  load  of  a  pool 
divide  the  total  weekly  attendance  by  the  pool  capacity  in  thou- 
sands of  gallons). 

Sec.  3.  Pool  water  shall  at  all  times  be  clean,  free  from  sus- 
pended matters,  practically  colorless  and  so  clear  that  markings  on 
the  bottom  of  the  pool  can  be  distinctly  seen  at  all  times.  The 
water  shall  be  kept  as  free  as  possible  from  floating  objects,  scum 
and  sputum. 

Sec.  4.  Pool  walls  shall  preferably  be  vertical ;  walls  and  floors 
shall  be  constructed  of  a  material  impervious  to  water,  surfaced 
with  white  tile,  light  colored,  cement  or  other  light  colored  water- 
proofed material.  Pool  surfaces  (walls  and  floor)  should  be 
smooth  and  even  to  permit  easily  of  cleaning.  Pool  floors  shall  not 
have  slopes  more  than  one  (1)  foot  in  15  feet  where  the  depth  of 
water  is  less  than  6  feet.  Depth  opposite  diving  stands  and  spring 
boards  shall  not  be  less  than  7  feet. 

Sec.  5.  The  pool  walls  and  bottom  shall  be  plainly  marked 
with  transverse  black  lines  at  least  three  inches  wide.  These  mark- 
ings shall  be  spaced  at  intervals  not  less  than  20  feet.  The  color 
of  pool  walls  and  floor  and  the  lighting  of  the  pool  room  shall  be 
such  that  the  black  lines  on  the  bottom  can  be  distinctly  seen  at 
all  times. 

Sec.  6.  The  depths  of  the  water  shall  be  plainly  and  distinctly 
shown  at  frequent  intervals  along  the  side  and  end  walls. 

Sec.  7.  The  entire  pool  shall  be  surrounded  by  a  raised  con- 
crete curb  at  least  2  inches  high  and  12  inches  wide,  serving  as  a 


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clean  space,  also  as  a  check  against  floor  drainage  flushing  into 
the  pool. 

Sec.  8.  All  walks  and  areaways  surrounding  the  pool  shall  be 
at  least  five  feet  wide  and  slope  to  properly  located  drains.  Floors 
of  areaways  shall  be  of  such  a  material  and  so  constructed  that 
they  will  be  easily  cleaned. 

Sec.  9.  Scum  or  overflow  gutters  of  an  approved  type  shall  bd 
provided  on  all  pools.  These  gutters  shall  be  arranged  along  the 
pool  walls  on  all  sides,  of  such  size  and  design  as  to  enable  a 
ready  cleaning  and  flushing.  Scum  gutters  shall  be  provided  with 
a  suiiicient  number  of  drains  so  spaced  as  to  permit  a  prompt  re^ 
moval  of  water  into  a  sewer.  No  gutters  shall  be  permitted  along 
the  top  of  the  wall  or  curb. 

Sec.  10,  Rooms  or  compartments  which  house  indoor  pools 
shall  be  well  ventilated  and  lighted.  Pools  shall  not  be  located  in 
dark  basements.  A  plentiful  supply  of  outside  air  and,  if  possible, 
direct  sun  rays  shall  have  access  to  the  pool  room. 

Sec.  11.  Dressing  rooms  shall  be  commodious,  well  lighted, 
well  ventilated  and  clean.  Floors  of  dressing  rooms  should  be  con- 
structed in  a  manner  to  permit  a  quick  washing,  drainage  and  dry- 
ing. Concrete  or  tile  floors  shall  be  constructed  to  slope  to  prop- 
erly located  drains.  Dressing  rooms  should  be  so  located  as  to  be 
easily  accessible  to  showers  and  pool. 

Sec.  12.  All  dressing  rooms  should  be  so  arranged  that  the 
line  of  travel  from  the  natatorium  entrance  to  pool  water  is  pro- 
gressive, enabling  the  bather  to  eliminate  retracing  steps. 

Sec.  13.  The  arrangements  of  dressing  rooms,  pool,  spectators' 
gallery  and  other  appurtenances  should  be  so  regulated  that  no 
person  but  bathers  are  allowed  on  the  areaway  surrounding  the 
pool,  at  all  times. 

Sec.  14.  Before  entering  or  using  the  pool  water  all  persons 
shall  take  a  shower  bath,  using  soap. 

Sec.  15.  Entrances  to  the  pool  should  be  only  via  a  foot  pool 
(where  provided)  and  shower  room.  (Where  possible,  showers 
should  operate  automatically  as  bather  passes  through  shower 
compartment). 

Sec.  16.  All  pools  shall  be  equipped  with  shower  compart- 
ments— one  shower  head  and  soap  for  every  40  dressing  rooms. 


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(Shower  rooms  shall  be  located  in  direct  line  of  travel  from  dress- 
ing room  to  pool).  The  floors  of  shower  compartments  shall 
properly  slope  to  enable  a  quick  removal  of  waste  water. 

Sec,  17.  The  foot  pools  preceding  the  shower  compartments, 
with  running  water,  shall  be  provided  where  possible  and  prac- 
ticable. 

Sec.  18.  Toilets  shall  be  conveniently  located  near  dressing 
rooms  and  showers.  There  shall  be  one  stool  for  every  40  rooms. 
Ample  provisions  must  be  made  for  urinals. 

Sec.  19.  Urinals  shall  be  of  a  type  to  prevent  splash  of  urine 
upon  the  floor  or  feet  of  the  bathers.  Toilet  floor  shall  be  of 
material  impervious  to  water  and  easily  cleaned.  Where  water 
carriage  toilets  are  impossible  sanitary  privies  built  in  accordance 
with  plans  of  the  State  Board  of  Health  shall  be  constructed.  All 
toilets  and  urinals  shall  be  plainly  marked. 

Sec.  20.  Where  drinking  fountains  are  provided  they  shall  be 
of  a  type  approved  by  the  State  Board  of  Health. 

Sec.  21.  All  bathing  suits  and  towels  shall  be  thoroughly 
washed  with  warm  water  and  soap  after  each  use.  The  washing 
shall  be  followed  by  a  clean  water  rinse  to  remove  soap,  then 
wringing.  After  laundering,  all  suits  and  towels  shall  be  completely 
dried  before  re-using.  Chemical  disinfection  is  not  a  substitute  for 
cleanliness  and  when  used  should  precede  rinsing.  Disinfectants 
must  be  soluble  in  water  in  concentrations  necessary  for  effective 
work.  Those  disinfectants  injurious  to  fabrics  should  not  be  used 
in  strengths  too  great.  Non-colored  cotton  suits  are  preferable, 
but  if  colored  suits  are  used,  colors  should  be  fast. 

Sec.  22.  No  common  combs  or  brushes  shall  be  permitted  in 
dressing  rooms  or  pool  areaways. 

Sec.  23.  No  person  having  a  communicable  disease,  skin 
abrasions  or  eruptions,  eye,  ear,  nose  or  throat  infections,  shall  be 
permitted  the  use  of  any  swimming  pool. 

Sec.  24.  The  State  Board  of  Health  recommends  and  approves 
a  type  of  poster  which  the  pool  management  shall  post  in  every 
dressing  compartment  and  in  several  conspicuous  places  about  the 
premises^  These  posters  printed  in  legible  type  on  heavy  white 
cards  10  inches  by  12  inches  in  size,  shall  show  the  pool  regulations 


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and  rules  of  conduct.  (Write  the  State  Board  of  Health  for  a 
specimen  poster.) 

Sec.  25.  All  pool  managements  shall  file  monthly  with  the 
State  Board  of  Health  on  blanks  provided  by  it  a  record  of  daily 
attendance  and  other  operations  as  prescribed  herein.  Such  records 
shall  be  submitted  to  the  Bureau  of  Engineering  of  the  State  Board 
o'f  Health  monthly. 

Ins.  No.  43.     Recommending  Certain  Types  of  Sewage  Disposal. 

Whereas  Chapter  6836  (No.  30)  and  7822  (No.  40)  of  the  laws  of 
Florida  specify  that  privies  shall  be  constructed  in  conformity 
with  plans  recommended  or  approved  by  the  State  Board  of  Health 
and. 

Whereas  there  are  available  for  use  many  types  of  devices 
patented  and  otherwise,  good,  bad  or  inefificient  for  the  disposal  of 
human  excreta,  and 

Whereas  standard  plans  of  privies  are  necessary  for  the  estab- 
lishment of  uniform  practice  in  rural  communities  and  munici- 
palities; 

Be  It  Hereby  Resolved  by  the  Florida  State  Board  of  Health 
assembled  this  the  ninth  day  of  October,  nineteen  hundred  and 
twenty,  (Oct.  9,  1920),  that  the  following  types  of  privies  are 
recommended  and  approved  for  use  in  Florida. 

(1)  The  Florida  Tank  privy  constructed  of 

(a)  Waterproofed  concrete  and  detailed  in  Bulletin  prepared 
by  the  State  Board  of  Health. 

(b)  Hard  brick^  well  plastered  inside  with  neat  cement.  This 
privy  is  available  for  the  use  under  all  Florida  conditions  and  is 
preferred  to  any  of  following.  Recommended  especially  for 
schools,  public  buildings,  etc. 

(2)  Septic  Tank  privies  of  approved  designs,  manufactured 
by  commercial  corporations.  These  privies  are  made  of  either  con- 
crete or  iron. 

(3)  Can  or  Receptacle  Type  for  use  only  where  regular  syste- 
matic and  efficient  collection  service  is  available.  The  compart- 
ment retaining  the  fecal  matter  must  be  absolutely  fly-tight,  when- 
ever this  type  is  used,  as  outlined  in  the  U.  S.  Health  Bulletin  No. 
89.      Cans   so   constructed,   that   top   rim    of   can   fits   tightly   and 


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fastens  to  bottom  of  seat,  meet  last  requirement.  Can  type  is  not 
recommended  for  use  at  schools,  rural  communities,  small  towns 
or  districts  not  having  consistent  collection  service.  Scavenger 
service  is  a  prerequisite  to  a  can  system  of  privies. 

(4)  The  Pit  Types  : 

(a)  Shallow  pits  in  earth,  sides  lined  with  wood,  brick  or  con- 
crete with  earthen  bottoms.  Such  pits  are  not  to  be  used  where 
wiater  supply  is  derived  from  dug  or  shallow  driven  wells,  nor  to 
be  used  in  clay,  marl,  coquina  or  porous  rock — ^shall  only  be  used 
in  sandy  soil.  No  such  privies  should  be  placed  less  than  50  feet 
from  a  driven  well  supply. 

(b)  Shallow  pits  of  concrete  with  water  tight-sides  and  bot- 
toms. All  that  has  been  included  under  No.  2  above  holds  true  in 
this  case.  Not  to  be  widely  advocated,  because  frequent  cleaning 
is  necessary. 

(5)  Chemical  Toilets : 

A  chemical  toilet  is  one  depending  for  its  efficiency  and  useful- 
ness upon  the  faithful,  timely  application  or  addition  of  a  chemical 
substance  for  the  destruction  of  discharge  organisms.  Only  those 
chemical  toilets  manufactured  by  reliable  companies  are  recom- 
mended, and  then  only  when  the  manufacturing  company  or  their 
representatives  assure  the  State  Board  of  Health  that  service  will 
be  continually  given  to  the  purchaser  by  the  manufacturing  com- 
pany or  its  agents.  By  service  is  meant  the  maintenance  of  the 
chemical  supply  and  a  satisfactory  operation. 

A  privy  or  closet  should  always  be  looked  upon  as  a  machine — 
a  mechanism.  It  demands  attention  and  care  for  its  successful 
operation.  The  success  or  satisfaction  of  any  toilet  system  will  be 
proportionate  (1)  to  the  care  with  which  it  is  constructed  and  (2) 
the  attention  it  receives.  Abuse  leads  to  imperfect  operation  and 
dissatisfaction. 

There  are  many  types  of  toilets  exploited  on  the  market.  Every 
manufacturer  proclaims  the  merits  of  his  toilet  above  all  others. 
No  manufactured  toilet  should  be  purchased  by  an  individual  of 
municipality  unless  it  conforms  to  the  provisions  laid  down  in  the 
accompanying  resolution.  In  case  of  doubt  write  the  State  Board 
of  Health,  Jacksonville,  and  secure  the  proper  information. 

Cost  is  an  item  of  importance.     Carefully  weigh  the  merits  of 


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the  several  toilet  types  and  then  select  the  type  productive  of  the 
best  results  at  the  lowest  cost. 

Pit  toilets  are  widely  used  in  Florida.  These  types  should  be 
used  only  where  advised  by  a  representative  of  the  State  Board 
of  Health,  and  then  should  be  constructed  as  instructed  by  him. 

Ins.  No.  44.  Suggestions  to  the  Bottlers  of  Water.  The  sale 
and  consumption  of  bottled  waters  is  almost  wholly  dependent 
upon  the  belief  in  the  purity  and  wholesomeness  of  the  water. 
Bottled  waters  may  show  dangerous  pollution  originating  from : 
(1)  Contaminated  wells  or  springs;  (2)  Dirty  or  unclean  bottles; 
(3)  Insanitary  handling  of  the  product. 

Standard  brands  of  bottled  waters  recently  examined  in  our 
laboratory  indicate  that  bacterial  counts  of  such  waters  are  some- 
times excessively  high  following  the  bottling  process  due  mainly  to 
the  preliminary  washing  process  and  insufficient  rinsing. 

To  keep  a  check  on  the  bottled  water  industry  of  Florida  and 
promote  greater  cleanliness  and  care  in  bottling  establishments 
Rule  26  (69)  of  the  State  Board  of  Health  was  promulgated  requir- 
ing all  bottlers  of  water  to  secure  from  the  State  Board  of  Health  a 
permit  to  bottle  and  sell  water  in  Florida  and  further  providing 
for  the  repulsion  of  such  permits  where  deemed  advisable. 

Frequent  inspections  of  bottling  establishments  over  the  state, 
strict  observance  of  methods  and  practice  employed  and  the  study 
of  modern  practice  throughout  the  country  has  placed  at  your  dis- 
posal a  fund  of  useful  information.  From  time  to  time  informa- 
tion sheets  will  be  issued  to  you  extending  the  benefits  of  our  col- 
lected data.  It  is  our  desire  to  assist  the  water  bottlers  in  every 
possible  manner  and  to  that  end  we  shall  strive.  Following  are 
listed  a  number  of  advisory  suggestions  which  may  be  familiar  to 
you  already,  but  nevertheless  READ  THEM.  DIGEST  THEM 
AND  PRESERVE  THIS  PAPER. 

One  reads  on  a  great  many  water  bottle  labels  captions  as  the 
following,  "Purest  water  in  the  world;"  "Pure,  sparkling  water;" 
"Pure  and  Palatable,"  etc.,  we  ask -you  to  maintain  such  standards 
about  your  establishments  that  will  insure  a  water  such  as  quoted 
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GENERAL. 

1.  Cleanliness  is  next  to  Godliness.  All  establishments  bot- 
tling PURE  water  should  be  clean  and  neatly  arranged  and  no  con- 
ditions suggestive  or  conducive  to  filth,  dust  or  dirt  should  be 
tolerated.  This  not  only  applies  to  the  immediate  bottling  room  or 
rooms  but  to  the  surrounding  grounds. 

2.  Doors  and  windows  should  all  be  screened. 

3.  The  bottling  room  or  rooms  should  be  of  ample  size  to 
avoid  congestion  and  unnecessary  accumulations.  The  room  or 
rooms  should  be  well  lighted  and  ventilated. 

4.  The  interior  furnishings  should  be  free  from  hangings  or 
any  other  collectors  of  dust. 

5.  The  interior  walls  should  preferably  be  tinted  with  a  light 
colored  paint  giving  a  washable  surface. 

6.  All  floors  should  preferably  be  of  a  smooth  finish  cement, 
properly  drained  to  prevent  the  collection  of  standing  water. 
Floors  must  be  kept  clean  at  all  times. 

7.  All  crates  or  bottles  of  water  prepared  and  ready  for  the 
market  should  preferably  be  stored  or  kept  on  a  false  bottom,  ele- 
vated about  six  inches  from  the  floor. 

8.  Sanitary  water  closets  or  toilets  should  be  available  at  all 
bottling  works  with  ample  facilities  for  washing.  No  toilet  shall 
open  directly  to  bottling  or  storage  room. 

9.  Employees  should  be  clean  and  neat  at  all  times  and  careful 
in  their  habits. 

Bottle  Washing  Facilities : 

1.  Before  filling,  every  bottle  should  be  subjected  to  a  thorough 
washing  in  water,  preferably  hot.  Badly  soiled  bottles  should  be 
boiled  and  thoroughly  cleaned  separately  from  other  bottles.  Soap 
and  washing  powders  should  be  used  on  all  preliminary  washings. 

2.  Mechanical  or  haiid  brushes  should  be  used  during  the  first 
wash. 

3.  Following  the  first  wash,  all  bottles  should  be  well  rinsed  in 
a  tank  of  clean  water  (about  150  gallons)  containing  one  quarter 
pound  chloride  of  lime  and  three  tablespoonsful  of  acqua  ammonia. 
Chloride  of  lime  should  be  rubbed  to  a  paste  with  water  in  a  small 


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container,  after  which  add  more  water  (about  2  quarts),  mixing- 
well.  Allow  to  stand  several  hours  until  all  non-solvent  matter 
settles.  Pour  off  clear  liquid  into  wash  water  with  3  tablespoonsful 
of  ammonia.  All  bottles  should  remain  in  this  tank  at  least  15 
minutes. 

4.  If  steam  sterilization  is  used  the  chloride  of  lime  and  am- 
monia may  be  omitted. 

5.  Spraying  of  bottles  on  inside  will  assist  the  rinsing.  Spray- 
ing water  should  be  of  an  unquestionable  quality. 

6.  All  bottles  should  be  thoroughly  drained  in  a  place  pro- 
tected from  dust  and  dirt. 

7.  All  bottles  previous  to  filling  should  be  rinsed  with  water 
of  the  same  quality  as  subsequently  sold. 

Corks  and  Caps : 

1.  All  corks,  caps,  papers,  etc.,  should  be  kept  in  a  dust  and 
dirt  protected  receptacle. 

2.  No  corks  should  be  used  a  second  time. 

Source  of  Supply: 

1.  The  source  of  supply  should  be  of  an  unquestionable  purity. 
Frequent  bacteriological  examinations  by  the  State  Board  of 
Health    would  determine  this. 

2.  All  spring  supplies  should  be  protected  against  contamina- 
tion in  a  manner  approved  by  the  State  Board  of  Health.  No 
spring  water  subject  to  even  slight  or  suspected  contamination  can 
be  sold. 

Ins.    No.    45.      An    Ordinance    Providing   for   the    Disposal    of. 

Human  Excreta  Within  the  City  Limits  of  the  City  of 

and  Declaring  Open  Privies  to  Be  a  Nuisance,  and  Providing  for 
the  Abatement  of  Such  Nuisances. 

Article  I.  Providing  for  the  Sanitary  Method  of  Disposing  of 
Human  Excreta  of  Occupants  and  the  Owners  of  Premises. 

Section  1.  That  every  residence  and  building  in  which  human 
beings  reside,  are  employed  or  congregated,  shall  be  required  to 
have  a  sanitary  method  of  disposing  of  human  excreta,  namely: 
either  a  sanitary  water  closet  that  is  connected  with  the  city  sewer, 
or  an  approved  type  of  septic  tank  or  a  sanitary  privy. 


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Sec.  2.     It  shall  be  unlawful  to  dispose  of  any  human  excreta 

with'in  the  corporate  limits  of  the  city  of 

except  in  a  sanitary  water  closet  or  a  sanitary  privy. 

Sec,  3.     It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person,  persons,  firm  or 

corporation  owning  or  leasing  any  premises  in  the  city  of 

to  permit  the  disposal  of  any  human  excreta  on  any  property, 
leased  or  rented  by  any  such  person,  persons,  firm  or  corporation 
or  the  agent  of  any  such,  except  in  a  sanitary  water  closet  or  a  sani- 
tary privy,  and  it  shall  be  unlawful  to  permit  the  disposal  of  any 
material  in  a  sanitary  privy  other  than  human  excreta  and  paper. 

Sec.  4.  That  no  septic  tank  other  than  those  approved  by  the 
State  Board  of  Health  shall  be  constructed  within  the  corporate 
limits  of 

Article  II.     Operation  of  Ordinance. 

Section  1.     The  city  of shall  provide  suitable 

plans  and  specifications  for  every  privy  to  be  installed  and  such 
other  information  that  may  be  necessary  to  construct  a  sanitary 
privy. 

Sec.  2.  The  cost  of  installing  a  sanitary  privy  for  the  disposal 
of  human  excreta  shall  be  borne  by  the  owner  of  the  property  upon 
which  the  sanitary  privy  is  to  be  located. 

Article  III.  Declaring  all  Open  Privies  to  be  a  Nuisance 
and  Providing  for  the  Abatement  of  all  such  Nuisances. 

Section  1.    That  all  privies  within  the  corporate  limits  of 

not  constructed  or  maintained  in  conformity 

with  plans  on  file  with  the  city  clerk  of 

shall  be  and  they  are  declared  a  nuisance  dangerous  to  the  public 
health  of  the  inhabitants  of  said  city  and  shall  be  condemned  and 
forthwith  abated  in  accordance  with  the  law  or  ordinance  of  said 
city. 

Sec.  2.  The  city  shall  have  the  further  right  to  cause  to  be 
made  such  alterations  and  constructions  to  such  privies  as  are 
nuisances  as  will  render  them  sanitary  or  any  cost  of  such  work 
shall  be  charged  against  the  person  creating  or  maintaining  the 
same. 

Article  IV.    Definition  of  Terms. 

Section  1.     "Human  Excreta."     That  the  term  human  excreta 


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as  used  in  this  ordinance  shall  be  construed  to  mean  the  bowel 
and  kidney  discharges  of  human  beings. 

Sec.  2.  "Septic  Tank,"  That  the  term  septic  tank  as  used  in 
this  ordinance  shall  be  construed  to  mean  an  underground  cavity 
with  water  tight  walls  into  which  flows  the  effluent  of  sanitary 
water  closets  and  from  which  the  effluent  does  not  come  to  the  sur- 
face of  the  ground. 

Sec.  3.  "Sanitary  Water  Closet."  That  the  term  sanitary 
water  closet  as  used  in  this  ordinance  shall  be  construed  to  mean 
any  flush  tight  toilet  which  is  properly  connected  with  the  said 
city  sewer  or  a  septic  tank  of  approved  construction. 

Sec.  4.  "Sanitary  Privy."  That  the  term  sanitary  privy  as 
used  in  this  ordinance  shall  be  construed  to  mean  any  privy  which 
is  so  built,  rebuilt  or  constructed  as  to  conform  with  plans  and 
specifications    promulgated    and    recommended    for    the    City    of 

by  the  State  Board  of  Health  and  which 

plans  and  specifications  are  adopted  by  resolution  of  the  City  Coun- 
cil of  the  City  of on  the 

day  of. 19.... 

Article  V.  Section  1.  That  any  person,  persons,  firm  or  cor- 
poration or  the  agent  of  any  person,  persons,  firm  or  corporation 
who  neglects,  fails  or  refuses  to  comply  with  the  provisions  of  this 
ordinance  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and  when  con- 
victed shall  be  fined  in  the  sum  of  not  less  than  $5.00  or  more  than 
$50.00  and  each  time  that  such  person,  persons,  firm  or  corpora- 
tion neglects,  fails  or  refuses  to  comply  with  any  of  the  provisions 
of  this  ordinance  shall  be  deemed  a  separate  offense  and  punished 
as  herein  provided. 

Passed  in  regular  session   this  the 

day  of .  . . A.  D.  19 


President. 

I  hereby  certify  that  the  above  and  foregoing  ordinance  was 

duly  and  regularly  passed  by  the  City  Council  of 

this   the day    of 19 .... ,   and   as    re- 
quired by  law  is  hereby  certified  to  the  Mayor  for  his  signature. 


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Witness  my  hand  and  official  seal  this  the. 
day  of 19.... 


City  Clerk. 

The  foregoing  ordinance  received  by  me  this  the 

day  of 19.  .  .  .  and  by  me  approved  the  same  day. 

Witness  my  hand  and  seal  at Florida,  this 

the day  of 19 ...  . 


Mayor. 

Ins.  No.  46.  An  Ordinance  Regulating  the  Protection  of 
Foodstuffs  and  Drink  for  Sale  and  Providing  for  the  Inspection  of 
Places  Where  Food  and  Drink  Are  Sold. 

Section  1.  Places  where  food  is  exposed  sliall  be  kept  in  a  sani- 
tary condition.  Every  person,  firm  or  corporation  keeping,  main- 
taining, or  being  in  charge  of  any  factory,  public  or  private  market, 
stall,  stand,  shop,  store,  warehouse,  cold  storage,  cart,  wagon  or 
other  vehicle  in  or  from  which  any  meat,  meat  products,  fish,  oys- 
ters or  other  seafood,  game,  foul,  fruit,  berries,  vegetables,  bread  or 
bakery  products,  ice  cream,  soft  drinks,  candies  or  any  other  articles 
or  substances,  intended  for  human  consumption,  are  manufactured, 
held,  kept,  stored,  exposed  or  offered  for  sale  or  distribution,  shall, 
keep  the  same  in  a  clean  and  sanitary  condition. 

Sec.  2.  Protection  from  flies  and  insects.  No  person,  firm  or 
corporation  shall  at  any  time,  place,  keep  or  expose,  offer  or  pre- 
pare for  sale,  or  store  pending  sale,  any  article  or  substance  of 
human  food  or  drink  in  any  business,  premises  or  place  in  the  city 

of where  such  article  or  substance  is  not, 

at  such  times,  so  screened  as  to  prevent  flying  insects  from  having 
access  to  such  article  or  substance.  No  person,  firm  or  corporation, 
shall  at  any  time  bring  into  the  city  for  sale,  or  carry  or  convey 
or  cause  to  be  carried  or  conveyed  upon,  along,  or  over  any  street 
or  alley  way  in  the  city  any  article  or  substance  of  human  food  or 
drink  for  the  purpose  of  offering  or  storing  for  sale,  or  which  at 
such  time  in  course  of  delivery  after  sale,  unless  such  article  or 
substance  of  food  or  drink,  at  such  times  be  covered,  screened  or 
otherwise  protected  in  such  manner  as  not  to  be  accessible  to  flying 
insects :    Provided,  however,  That  no  provision  of  this  section  shall 


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apply  to  or  affect  any  article  or  substance  of  human  food  or  drink 
which  shall,  at  such  times,  be  in  unbroken  packages,  or  containers 
tightly  closed :  Provided  further :  That  the  following  foodstuffs 
shall  not  be  deemed  subject  to  contamination  from  flying  insects, 
and  shall  not  be  required  to  be  screened,  to-wit :  Watermelons  or 
other  melons,  oranges  or  lemons  where  unsliced  or  unpeeled,  and 
potatoes,  collards,  carrots,  turnips,  parsnips,  onions,  squash  and 
pumpkins. 

Sec.  3.  Dining  rooms  of  public  places,  bakeries,  markets  and 
other  places  shall  be  screened.  The  dining  rooms  of  all  eating 
houses,  hotels,  boarding  houses,  restaurants,  lunch  rooms,  and  the 
kitchens  thereof;  all  bakeries,  confectioneries,  candy  factories,  ice 
cream  parlors  and  factories,  soft  drink  stands,  places  using  soda 
fountains,  delicatessens,  meat  markets,  and  places  where  milk  is 
bottled  and  prepared  for  sale,  shall  have  all  windows,  doors  and 
openings  therein  properly  screened  so  as  to  exclude  flies  from 
such  places. 

Sec.  4.  Inspection  of  places  handling  foodstuffs.  Notice  of 
insanitary  conditions ;  refusal  to  comply  with,  violates  this  ordi- 
nance. It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  sanitary  officers,  the  health 
officers,  and  the  agents  of  the  department  of  health,  to  visit  at 
frequent  intervals,  each  private  and  public  market,  stall,  stand, 
shop,  warehouse,  cold  storage,  canning  factory,  hotel,  boarding 
house,  restaurant,  lunch  room,  soft  drink  stand,  bakery,  ice  cream 
factory  or  other  place  of  business  regulated  by  this  chapter,  in  the 

city  of and  to  inspect  each,  and  also  all  other 

wagons  and  vehicles  used  therewith,  or  vendors  or  street  hawkers 
in  or  about  which  any  of  the  foodstuffs  or  other  articles  embraced 
in  this  chapter  are  kept,  made,  prepared,  or  held,  prepared,  or  car- 
ried for  sale  or  distribution.  Notice  shall  be  given  where  such 
premises,  places,  or  vehicles  are  found  to  be  in  an  unclean,  un- 
wholesome condition,  to  remedy  the  same;  and  any  person,  firm  or 
corporation  neglecting  or  refusing  to  put  such  premises,  place  or 
vehicle  in  a  clean  wholesome,  sanitary  condition  within  24  hours 
from  the  time  notice  is  given  in  writing  by  the  health  officer  of  the 
city  so  to  do  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  violation  of  this  ordinance, 
and  each  day  that  the  said  notice  is  not  complied  with  shall  con- 
stitute a  separate  violation  thereof. 

Sec.  5.     Each  day's  failure  to  comply  with  any  notice  author- 


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ized  by  this  chapter  constitutes  a  separate  violation.  Where  any 
notice  shall  be  given  under  the  provisions  of  this  chapter  to  remedy 
sanitary  conditions,  and  such  notice  is  disregarded  or  neglected, 
after  24  hours  from  the  time  notice  is  given,  unless  a  different  period 
of  time  is  expressly  provided,  each  day  thereafter  such  unsanitary 
conditions  are  willfully  permitted  to  remain  shall  constitute  a  sepa- 
rate violation  of  the  ordinance. 

Note:  If  the  city  has  no  City  Health  Officer  or  Board  of 
Health,  the  above  ordinance  can  be  modified  so  as  to  place  the 
specified  duties  upon  the  marshal  or  other  responsible  official. 

Have  the  city  attorney  carefully  examine  above  ordinance  and 
so  modify  it  to  conform  with  the  city's  charter  provisions. 

Ins.  No.  47.  An  Ordinance  to  Prevent  the  Breeding  of  Mosqui- 
toes in  City  of 

Section  1.     It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  to  have,  keep, 

maintain,  cause,  or  permit  within  the  corporate  limits  of 

any  collection  of  standing  or  flowing  water  in  which 

mosquitoes  breed  or  are  likely  to  breed,  unless  such  collection  of 
water  is  treated  so  as  effectually  to  prevent  such  breeding. 

Sec.  2.  Collections  of  water  in  which  mosquitoes  breed  or  are 
likely  to  breed  are  those  contained  in  ditches,  ponds,  pools,  excava- 
tions, holes,  depressions,  open  cesspools,  privy  vaults,  fountains, 
cisterns,  tanks,  shallow  wells,  barrels,  troughs  (except  horse 
troughs  in  frequent  use),  urns,  cans,  boxes,  bottles,  tubs,  buckets, 
defective  house  roof  gutters,  tanks  of  flush  closets,  or  other  simi- 
lar water  containers. 

Sec.  3.  The  natural  presence  of  mosquito  larvae  in  standing 
or  running  water  shall  be  evidence  that  mosquitoes  are  breeding 
there. 

Sec.  4.  Collections  of  water  in  which  mosquitoes  breed  or  are 
likely  to  breed  shall  be  treated  by  such  one  or  more  of  the  follow- 
ing methods  as  shall  be  approved  by  the  health  officer. 

(a)  Screening  with  wire  netting  of  at  least  16  meshes  to  the 
inch  each  way,  or  any  other  material  which  will  effectually  pre- 
vent the  ingress  or  egress  of  mosquitoes. 

(b)  Complete  emptying  every  seven  days  of  unscreened  con- 
tainers, together  with  their  thorough  drying  or  cleaning. 


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(c)  Using  a  larvicide  approved  and  applied  under  the  direction 
of  the  health  officer. 

(d)  Covering  completely  the  surface  of  the  water  with  kero- 
sene, petroleum,  or  paraffin  oil  once  every  seven  days. 

(e)  Cleaning  and  keeping  sufficiently  free  of  vegetable  growth 
and  other  obstructions,  and  stocking  with  mosquito-destroying 
fish. 

(f)  Filling  or  draining  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  health  officer, 

(g)  Proper  disposal,  by  removal  or  destruction,  of  tin  cans, 
tin  boxes,  broken  or  empty  bottles,  and  similar  articles  likely  to 
hold  water. 

Sec.  5.  In  case  the  person  responsible  for  the  condition  of 
premises  on  which  mosquitoes  breed  or  are  likely  to  breed  fails  or 
refuses  to  take  necessary  measures  to  prevent  their  breeding  within 
three  days  after  notice  in  writing  has  been  given  him  by  the  health 
officer,  or  within  such  longer  time  after  such  notice  as  may  be 
specified  in  the  notice,  the  said  person  responsible  shall  be  deemed 
guilty  of  a  violation  of  this  ordinance;  and  for  each  day  after  the 
expiration  of  three  days  from  the  day  on  which  such  notice  is  given 
him,  or  for  each  day  after  the  expination  of  the  time  specified  in  the 
notice,  as  the  case  may  be,  that  the  person  responsible  fails  or  re- 
fuses to  take  such  measures,  the  said  person  responsible  shall  be 
deemed  guilty  of  a  separate  violation  of  this  ordinance,  and  in  case 
of  such  failure  or  refusal  of  the  person  responsible  the  health 
officer  is  authorized  to  take  necessary  measures  to  prevent'  the 
breeding  of  mosquitoes,  and  all  necessary  costs  incurred  by  the 
health  officer  for  that  purpose  shall  be  a  charge  against  the  person 
responsible. 

Sec.  6.  For  the  purpose  of  this  ordinance  the  person  respon- 
sible for  the  condition  of  any  premises  is  the  person  using  or  occu- 
pying the  same;  or,  in  case  no  person  is  using  or  occupying  the 
premises,  the  person  who  by  law  is  entitled  to  the  immediate  pos- 
session of  the  same;  or,  in  case  the  premises  are  used  or  occupied 
by  two  or  more  tenants  of  a  common  landlord,  or  form  grounds  ap- 
purtenant to  a  house  occupied  by  two  or  more  tenants  of  a  com- 
mon landlord,  then  the  landlord ;  each  tenant,  however,  is  responsi- 
ble for  that  part  of  the  premises  which  he  occupies  to  the  exclusion 
of  the  other  tenants :     Provided,  that,  in  case  the  premises  are  oc- 


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cupied  by  a  tenant  under  a  yearly  or  monthly  tenancy,  or  under 
a  lease  for  not  more  than  a  year,  or  under  any  lease  whereby  the 
lessor  is  expressly  or  impliedly  obligated  to  keep  the  premises  in 
repair,  and  the  collection  of  standing  or  flowing  water  in  which 
mosquitoes  breed  or  are  likely  to  breed  is  owing  to  the  disrepair 
of  the  building  or  buildings,  or  to  any  natural  quality  of  the  premi- 
ses, or  to  any  condition  that  existed  at  the  time  when  the  tenant 
entered  into  possession,  or  to  anything  done  on  the  premises  by  the 
landlord  during  the  existence  of  the  tenancy  or  lease,  then,  and  in 
such  case,  the  landlord  is  the  person  responsible :  Provided  fur- 
ther. That  any  person  who  has  caused  to  exist  on  any  premises  of 
which  he  is  not  the  owner,  landlord,  occupant,  or  tenant  any  col- 
lection of  water  in  which  mosquitoes  breed  or  are  likely  to  breed 
is  responsible,  as  well  as  the  owner,  landlord,  tenant,  or  occupant, 
as  the  case  may  be. 

Sec.  7.  For  the  purpose  of  enforcing  the  provisions  of  this 
ordinance,  the  health  officer,  or  his  lawful  subordinate,  may  at  all 
reasonable  times  enter  in  and  upon  any  premises  within  his  juris- 
diction. 

Sec.  8.  Any  person  found  guilty  of  a  violation  of  this  ordi- 
nance, as  described  in  Section  5  hereof,  shall  be  punished  by  a 
fine  of  not  less  than  one  dollar  ($1)  and  not  more  than  twenty-five 
dollars  ($25). 

Sec.  9.  This  ordinance  shall  be  in  full  force  and  effect  on  and 
after  the day  from  the  day  on  which  it  is  approved. 

Ins.  No.  48.     Garbage  and  Refuse — Care  of — Receptacles. 

Section  1.  That  all  housekeepers  and  boarding  house  keepers, 
hotel  keepers,  butchers,  or  storekeepers,  or  any  other  person  or 
persons  in  the  city  keeping  or  offering  garbage  for  collection  shall 
provide  for  the  storage  of  all  kitchen  and  table  refuse,  offal,  swill, 
and  every  accumulation  of  animal  and  vegetable  matter  that  at- 
tend the  preparation,  decay,  dealing  in,  or  storage  of  fish,  meats, 
■fowl,  game,  or  vegetables  a  water-tight  metal  receptacle  provided 
with  proper  handles  and  a  tight  fitting  cover  and  to  hold  not  less 
than  12  quarts.  Said  cans  shall  be  kept  in  a  place  easily  accessible 
to  the  garbage  collector,  but  never  upon  any  street  or  sidewalk, 
alley   or   public   place;   and   such   receptacle   shall   be   thoroughly 


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cleaned  by  the  owner  after  it  has  been  emptied  by  the  garbage  col- 
lector; and  shall  provide  for  the  storage  of  all  general  combustible 
waste,  as  paper  and  rags,  pasteboard,  boxes,  berry  boxes,  whole 
bottles,  broken  glass  and  empty  tin,  fruit  or  vegetable  cans,  a  sepa- 
rate receptacle,  which  shall  be  kept  in  a  place  easily  accessible  to 
the  garbage  collector,  but  never  upon  any  street  or  sidewalk,  alley, 
or  other  public  place. 

Sec.  2.  "Garbage"  as  used  in  this  ordinance  shall  be  held  to 
include  all  kitchen  and  table  refuse,  offal,  all  general  combustible 
waste,  as  paper  and  rags,  pasteboard  boxes,  berry  boxes,  swill,  and 
every  accumulation  of  animal  and  vegetable  and  vegetable  matter 
that  attend  the  preparation,  decay,  dealing  or  storage  of  meats,  fish, 
fowl,  game,  or  vegetables ;  also  whole  bottles,  broken  glass,  and 
empty  tin,  fruit,  or  vegetable  cans. 

Sec.  3.  If  any  person  or  persons,  firm  or  corporation  shall  per- 
mit his,  her,  or  its  garbage  to  be  so  stored  or  kept  in  an  exposed 
manner  as  to  render  the  air  or  soil  impure  or  unwholesome,  such 
person  or  persons  responsible  shall,  upon  conviction  before  the 
burgess  of  the  said  city  or  any  justice  of  the  peace  of  the  said  city, 
be  sentenced  to  pay  a  fine  of  not  less  than  $1  nor  more  than  $25 
or  undergo  an  imprisonment  in  the  city  jail  for  a  period  not  to 
exceed  48  hours. 

Ins.  No.  49.  An  Ordinance  Requiring  Sewer  Connections  in  the 
City  of 

Be  it  Ordained  by  the  City  of that : 

Section  1.  Where  in  any  street  or  section  of  street  there  is 
now  constructed  a  public  sewer,  or  where  hereafter  in  any  street 
or  section  of  street  there  may  be  constructed  any  public  sewer  for 
the  purpose  of  carrying  off  the  sewage,  the  owner  or  owners  of 
property  abutting  on,  adjacent  to,  along  the  line  of  any  or  within 
200  feet  of  any  such  sewer  so  constructed  or  to  be  constructed 
shall,  within  30  days  after  being  notified  by  the  city  clerk  of  the 

city  of connect  the  house  and  buildings  on   such 

property  with  such  public  sewer  in  a  proper  manner. 

Sec.  2.  Any  person  refusing  or  neglecting  to  make  such  con- 
nections, or  to  comply  with  the  provisions  of  this  article  and  said 
notice,  shall  pay  a  fine  of  $25  and  an  additional  fine  of  $10  for  each 


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and  every  day  after  the  aforesaid  notice  of  30  days  shall  have  ex- 
pired, and  during  which  time  the  provisions  of  this  ordinance  and 
said  notice  have  not  been  complied  with. 

Ins.  No.  50.     Instructions  on  Biologies. 

Section  1.  The  State  Board  of  Health  furnishes  free  to  all  citi- 
zens the  following  biological  products  under  conditions  that  are 
detailed  below: 

Sec.  2.  Diphtheria  antitoxin,  vaccine  virus,  preventive  treat- 
ment for  typhoid,  antimeningococcus  serum,  and  antirabic  treat- 
ments. 

Sec.  3.  The  Central  Laboratory  is  the  main  distributing  point 
and  requests  for  any  large  amounts  of  any  of  the  biological  pro- 
ducts listed  above  should  be  directed  to  the  "State  Laboratory, 
Jacksonville,  Florida." 

Sec.  4.  All  requests  for  antirabic  treatments  should  be  made 
to  the  "State  Laboratory,  Jacksonville,  Florida,"  where  the  first 
three  days'  treatments  are  kept,  the  remainder  being  ordered  by 
wire  immediately  on  receipt  of  the  request,  which  should  always 
give  the  age  of  the  patient,  and  the  location  and  severity  of  the 
bites.  The  age  of  the  patient  is  important,  and  the  lack  of  this 
may  mean  delay  in  receiving  the  treatment. 

Sec.  5.  Diphtheria  antitoxin  is  stocked  in  two  sizes,  10000  and 
5000  units,  for  therapeutic  use  only. 

Sec.  6.  The  immunizing  doses  of  diphtheria  antitoxin  are  no 
longer  furnished,  and  the  Board  strongly  advises  against  the  prac- 
tice, but  urges  that  swabs  be  taken  from  both  nose  and  throat  of 
all  contacts.  The  Schick  test  has  shown  that  such  a  large  propor- 
tion of  the  population  is  immune  to  diphtheria  that  contacts  should 
always  be  examined  as  they  are  a  tremendous  factor  in  the  spread 
of  the  disease.  As  it  is  important  that  antitoxin  be  used  at  the 
earliest  possible  moment  when  a  diagnosis  of  diphtheria  is  made, 
antitoxin  stations  have  been  established  at  drug  stores  over  the 
state,  so  located  that  there  should  be  but  little  delay  in  obtaining 
a  supply.    A  list  of  these  stations  is  appended. 

Sec.  7.  Tetanus  antitoxin  is  obtained  only  from  the  labora- 
tories. This  is  furnished  in  two  sizes,  1500  units  for  prophylactic, 
and  5000  units  for  therapeutic  use. 


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Sec.  8.     Vaccine  virus  is  obtained  only  from  the  laboratories. 

Sec.  9.  Antimeningococcus  serum  in  30cc  cylinders  is  ob- 
tained only  from  the  laboratories. 

Sec.  10.  Typhoid  prophylactic  treatment,  the  triple  vaccine,  is 
stocked  at  the  laboratories,  and  in  small  quantities  at  the  antitoxin 
stations. 

Antitoxin    Distributing    Stations 
City  1  Station 

Apalachicola Wm.  W.  Pooser  Drug  Co. 

Arcadia Arcadia  Drug  Co. 

Avon  Park Avon  Park  Drug  Co. 

Blountstown Leonard  Drug  Co. 

Bradentown Balis  Drug  Co. 

Century Century    Pharmacy 

Chipley Mitchell   Drug   Co. 

Clearwater Clearwater  Pharmacy 

Cocoa Hughlett  Drug  Co. 

Dade  City Griffin  Drug  Co. 

Daytona Hankins    Drug   Co. 

DeFuniak  Springs P.  H.  Cannady 

Fernandina Horsey's  Drug  Store 

Ft.  Meade Langford  Drug  Co. 

Ft.  Myers Pixon  &  Schultz  Drug  Co. 

Ft.  Pierce Silver  Palace  Drug  Co. 

Gainesville J.   S.   Bodiford   Drug  Co. 

Inverness Inverness   Drug  Co. 

Jacksonville State    Laboratory 

Key  West Porter  Drug  Co. 

Kissimmee Conner  Drug  Co. 

Lake   City ." Columbia    Pharmacy 

Live  Oak Suwanee  Drug  Co. 

Miami , State  Laboratory 

Ocala Anti-monopoly  Drug  Co. 

Okeechobee Park    Pharmacy 

Orlando Evans  Rex  Drug  Co. 

Palatka City  Drug  Store 

Panama  City Sims  Drug  Co. 


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Plant  City\ 1 Plant  City  Drug  Co. 

Pensacola .  \ State    Laboratory 

Quincy \ F.  P.  May  Drug  Co. 

Sanford Mobley's  Drug  Store 

Starke \ Mitchell    Drug   Co. 

Tallahassee. J-  P-  Bruns  Drug  Co. 

Tampa State  Laboratory 

Wauchula Beson  Bros. 

West  Palm  Beach Speers  Pharmacy 

Winter  Haven S.  H.  Woods 

Central  Laboratory,  Jacksonville,  Fla. 
Branch  Laboratories :     Tampa,  Pensacola,  Miami,  Tallahassee, 
*West  Palm  Beach,  ^Orlando. 
* — These  laboratories  will  be  opened  by  July  1,  1921. 

Ins.  No.  51.  Instructions  on  Specimens  for  Laboratory  Exami- 
nations. 

Section  1.  The  laboratories  of  the  State  Board  of  Health  make 
free  examination  of  material  for  the  diagnosis  of  any  disease  or  con- 
dition of  a  bacteriologic  or  parasitic  nature  dangerous  to  the  pub- 
lic health.  Outfits  may  be  obtained  from  any  of  the  laboratories 
for  submitting  specimens  for  diagnosis,  and  directions  for  secur- 
ing specimens  are  sent  with  each  outfit.  It  is  requested  that  the 
outfits  furnished  be  used,  and  directions  carefully  followed.  Re- 
quests for  containers  for  water  examinations  should  be  made  to 
the  "Bureau  of  Engineering,  State  Board  of  Health,  Jacksonville, 
Florida." 

Sec.  2.  If  an  animal  is  suspected  of  having  rabies,  the  animal 
should  be  confined  if  possible,  and  if  it  is  a  case,  death  will  follow 
within  a  very  few  days,  in  most  instances  in  from  24  to  72  hours. 

Sec.  3.  Never  kill  an  animal  suspected  of  being  rabid  if  it  is 
possible  to  confine  him,  as  by  so  doing  it  may  make  a  diagnosis 
impossible,  and  the  very  best  negative  diagnosis  is  to  know  that 
the  animal  is  alive  and  perfectly  normal  ten  days  after  he  has  bit- 
ten a  person  or  animal. 

Sec.  4.  In  submitting  a  head  for  examination  it  should  be  cut, 
leaving  a  portion  of  the  neck  also.  Pack  this  in  a  container  that 
has  a  tight  cover,  put  in  a  wooden  box  with  ice  and  sawdust  and 
send  by  express  prepaid.     It  is  always  best  to  send  a  letter  at  the 


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same  time,  giving  a  history  of  the  case,  including  the  age  of  any 

patients  that  may  have  been  bitten,  and  the  locations  of  the  bites. 

Sec.  5.     Tissue  for  pathological  examination  should  be  sent  in 

a  fixative  solution,  either  50  per  cent  alcohol  or  10  per  cent  formalin. 

Rule  No.  52.     Governing  Morbidity  Reports. 

vSection  1.  It  being  the  duty  of  the  State  Board  of  Health  to 
keep  currently  informed  of  the  occurrence,  geographic  distribution 
and  prevalence  of  the  preventable  diseases  throughout  the  State, 
and  to  prevent  the  spread  of  these  diseases,  and  for  that  purpose 
the  following  Rules  are  adopted  in  accordance  with  power  con- 
ferred on  the  State  Board  of  Health,  as  provided  by  Chapter  6892 
(No.  86),  Laws  of  1915. 

Sec.  2.  The  following  named  diseases  and  disabilities  are  here- 
by declared  to  be  dangerous  to  the  public  health  and  made  notifi- 
able, and  the  occurrence  of  cases  shall  be  reported  as  herein 
provided : 

Group  1,  Communicable  Diseases — Anthrax,  Chancroid, 
Chickenpox,  Cholera,  Asiatic  (also  cholera  nostras  when  Asiatic 
Cholera  is  present  or  its  importation  threatened)  ;  Dengue,  Diph- 
theria, Dysentery,  (a)  Amoebic,  (b)  Bacillary ;  Favus,  German 
Measles,  Glanders,  Gonococcus  Infection,  Hookworm  Disease,  In- 
fluenza, Leprosy,  Malaria,  Meningitis,  (a)  Epidemic  Cerebro-spinal, 
(b)  Tuberculous ;  Measles,  Mumps,  Opthalmia  Neonatorum  (con- 
junctivitis of  new-born  infants)  ;  Paratyphoid  fever.  Plague,  Pneu- 
monia, Poliomyelitis  (Acute  infectious)  ;  Rabies,  Scarlet  Fever, 
Smallpox,  Syphilis,  Tetanus,  Trachoma,  Trichinosis,  Tuberculosis 
(all  forms,  the  organ  or  part  affected  in  each  case  to  be  stated)  ; 
Typhoid  Fever,  Typhus  Fever,  Whooping  Cough,  Yellow  Fever. 

Group  2,    Miscellaneous   Diseases — Beriberi,   Cancer,   Pellagra. 

Sec.  3.  Every  person  who  in  the  State  of  Florida  treats  or  ex- 
amines for  the  purpose  of  diagnosis  or  treatment  any  person  suffer- 
ing from  or  afflicted  with,  or  who  suspects  that  any  person  treated 
or  examined  by  him,  is  suffering  from  or  afflicted  with,  any  of  the 
diseases  made  notifiable  by  the  preceding  section,  shall  report  such 
case  to  the  State  Board  of  Health,  Bureau  of  Vital  Statistics, 
within  six  hours  after  making  a  diagnosis  or  suspecting  the  disease 


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to  be  one  required  to  be  reported,  provided,  That  in  municipalities 
or  counties  where  satisfactory  arrangements  have  been  made  to 
secure  weekly  reports  from  the  local  health  officer,  physicians  may 
report  notifiable  diseases,  occurring  within  such  municipalities  or 
counties,  direct  to  the  local  health  officer,  who  will  forward  the 
information  to  the  State  Board  of  Health,  Bureau  of  Vital  Statis- 
tics once  each  week.  Said  report  shall  give  the  following  informa- 
tion which  is  necessary  for  the  protection  of  the  public  health  and 
welfare. 

(a)  Date  when  the  report  is  made. 

(b)  The  name  of  the  disease  or  suspected  disease. 

(c)  The  name,  sex,  color  or  race,  and  the  county  and  munici- 
pality or  voting  percinct-in  which  the  patient  is  located  at  the  time 
the  diagnosis  is  made. 

(d)  Age,  occupation,  school  attended,  and  place  of  employ-  • 
ment  of  the  patient. 

(e)  Number  of  adults  and  of  children  in  the  household. 

(f)  Source  or  probable  source  of  infection  or  the  origin  or 
probable  origin  of  the  disease. 

(g)  Name  and  address  of  the  person  making  the  report. 

(h)  If  the  disease  is,  or  is  suspected  to  be,  smallpox,  the  report 
shall,  in  addition,  show  whether  the  disease  is  of  the  mild  or  viru- 
lent type  and  whether  the  patient  has  ever  been  successfully  vacci- 
nated, and  if  the  patient  has  been  successfully  vaccinated,  the  num- 
ber of  times  and  dates  or  approximate  dates  of  such  vaccination. 

(i)  If  the  disease  is,  or  is  suspected  to  be,  typhoid  fever,  scarlet 
fever  or  diphtheria,  the  report  shall  show  whether  the  patient  has 
been,  or  any  member  of  the  household  in  which  the  patient  resides 
is  engaged  or  employed  in  the  handling  of  milk  for  sale  or  prelimin- 
ary to  sale. 

(j)     Date  of  onset  of  disease. 

Provided,  That  if  the  person  making  the  report  is  unable  to 
secure  any  item  or  items  of  information  mentioned  in  paragraphs 
d,  e,  f,  i  and  j  without  independent  inquiry  he  shall  state  that  fact 
on  the  report,  by  writing  the  word  "Unknown"  after  each  item 
for  which  the  information  cannot  be  obtained. 

Sec.  4.  Employees  of  the  State  Board  of  Health  shall  be  per- 
mitted to  make  an  investigation  of  the  case  and  secure  the  informa- 
tion ;  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  any  person  interrogated  in  relation 


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thereto  to  answer  correctly  and  to  the  best  of  his  or  her  knowl- 
edge all  questions  put  to  him  or  her  by  any  such  employee  whfch 
may  be  calculated  to  elicit  any  information  needed  to  verify  or  com- 
plete any  report  of  a  case  of  a  known  or  suspected  notifiable  disease 
or  to  enable  measures  to  be  taken  to  prevent  the  spread  of  any  such 
disease. 

Sec.  5.  If  the  disease  is,  or  is  suspected  to  be,  Asiatic  Cholera, 
Bubonic  Plague  or  Yellow  Fever,  the  person  required  to  make  the 
report  shall  immediately  wire  the  State  Health  Officer,  collect, 
giving  name  and  place  of  person,  and  the  disease  from  which  he 
suffers,  or  is  afflicted  with,  or  is  suspected  to  be  suffering  from,  or 
afflicted  with. 

Sec.  6.  The  requirements  of  the  preceding  section  shall  be 
applicable  to  persons  attending  patients  ill  with  any  of  the  notifiable 
diseases  in  hospitals,  asylums,  or  other  institutions,  public  or 
private ;  Provided,  That  the  executive  officer  of  any  institution, 
public  or  private,  may  designate  in  writing  an  officer  or  employee 
of  such  hospital,  asylum,  or  other  institution  to  report  in  place  of 
the  attending  physician  or  other  person  treating  or  examining  the 
patient  in  cases  of  notifiable  diseases  occurring  in  or  admitted  to  said 
hospital,  asylum,  or  other  institution  in  the  same  manner  as  that 
prescribed  for  persons  treating  or  examining  patients.  When 
designation  has  been  made  as  above  provided,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of 
such  designated  officer  to  report  all  cases  of  notifiable  diseases  oc- 
curring in  or  admitted  to  such  hospital,  asylum,  or  other  institu- 
tion in  same  manner  as  that  prescribed  for  persons  treating  or  ex- 
amining patients. 

Sec.  7.  Whenever  a  person  is  known,  or  suspected,  to  be 
afflicted  with  a  notifiable  disease,  or  whenever  the  eyes  of  any  in- 
fant under  two  weeks  of  age  become  reddened,  inflamed,  swollen, 
or  contain  an  unnatural  discharge,  and  no  physician  is  in  attend- 
ance, an  immediate  report  of  the  existence  of  the  case  shall  be  made 
to  the  State  Board  of  Health,  Bureau  of  Vital  Statistics,  by  the 
midwife ;  if  no  midwife  is  in  attendance,  said  report  shall  be  made 
by  the  father,  mother,  or  other  person  in  charge  of  the  patient,  each 
in  the  order  named. 

Sec.  8.  Every  teacher  and  every  person  in  charge  of  any  public 
or  private  school,  including  Sunday  Schools,  shall  report  im- 
mediately to  the  State  Board  of  Health,  Bureau  of  Vital  Statis- 


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tics,  each  and  every  case  which  he  or  she  knows  or  suspects  to  be 
a  case  of  a  notifiable  disease  in  persons  attending  or  employed  in 
his  or  her  school. 

Sec.  9.  All  diseases  that  are  made  notifiable  shall  be  reported 
within  six  (6)  hours  to  the  State  Board  of  Health,  Bureau  of 
Vital  Statistics,  on  postal  card  (Form  V.  S.  No.  124),  which  is  sup- 
plied for  that  purpose,  and  all  the  information  requested  thereon 
must  be  given. 

This  section  amended  by  the  State  Board  of  Health  at  their 
meeting  held  February  10th,  1920,  by  adding  the  following:  "When 
reporting  Syphilis,  Chancroid  or  Gonorrhoea,  the  report  card  (Form 
V.  S.  No.  124)  must  be  enclosed  in  a  sealed  envelope  which  is  also 
supplied  by  the  State  Board  of  Health." 

Sec.  10.  If  the  age  cannot  be  ascertained,  be  sure  to  state  the 
approximate  age.  Give  the  county  in  which  the  case  is  located 
and  in  stating  the  place  within  the  county,  strike  out  the  words 
"City,"  "Town"  or  "Voting  Precinct"  that  do  not  apply.  If  the 
case  is  located  within  the  corporate  limits  of  a  city  or  town,  strike 
out  the  words  "Voting  Precinct,"  and  if  the  case  should  be  located 
in  the  voting  precinct,  even  though  it  is  just  outside  of  the  corpo- 
rate limits,  strike  out  the  words  "City"  and  "Town."  It  is  im- 
portant that  great  care  be  used  in  stating  the  geographical  location 
of  the  case.  This  information  is  necessary  first,  that  the  case  may 
be  located  without  loss  of  time  by  health  officers  of  the  State  Board 
of  Health,  and  second,  that  a  municipality  will  not  be  credited  with 
more  sickness  than  actually  occurred  within  the  city  or  town. 

Sec.  11.  The  name  of  the  SCHOOL  ATTENDED  should  be 
given  only  in  cases  when  the  person  having  the  disease  is  an  at- 
tendant at  school.  If  the  case  is  in  a  rural  district,  the  name  of  the 
school  should  be  given.  If  attending  school  in  a  city  or  town,  in 
which  there  are  two  or  more  schools,  the  name  of  the  school  should 
be  given  and  also  the  grade  attended. 

Sec.  12.  In  giving  the  PLACE  OF  EMPLOYMENT,  also 
designate  the  service  or  work  at  which  the  person  is  employed; 
e.  g.,  Jones'  Meat  Market,  "Meat  cutter ;"  Wilson  Dry  Goods  Store, 
"Clerk;"  Havana  Cigar  Factory,  "Cigar  wrapper;"  Smith's  Dairy, 
"Driver,"  etc. 

Sec.  13.  In  reporting  SMALLPOX  or  TYPHOID  FEVER 
be  sure  to  state  the  number  of  times  vaccinated  and  the  dates  of 


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each  vaccination  as  accurately  as  possible ;  if  not  able  to  give  exact 
dates,  give  approximate  dates. 

Sec.  14.  When  reporting  a  case  of  TYPHOID  FEVER, 
SCARLET  FEVER  or  DIPHTHERIA,  and  any  person  living  in 
the  house  in  which  the  case  is  located  is  engaged  in  the  handling 
of  milk  for  sale,  or  preliminary  to  sale,  state  it  as  "Yes"  or  "No." 
If  answered  "Yes,"  state  the  place  and  kind  of  employment :  For 
instance,  Jones'  Milk  Station,  "Salesman"  or  "Saleswoman," 
Smith's  Dairy,  "Driver,"  etc. 

Sec.  15.  When  reporting  a  case  of  TUBERCULOSIS,  be  sure 
to  state  the  organ  or  part  affected  by  the  disease ;  that  is,  "'Pul- 
monary tuberculosis,"  "Acute  miliary  tuberculosis,"  "Tuberculous 
meningitis,"  "Tuberculosis  of  spine,"  etc. 

Sec.  16.  The  ordinary  diarrhoeas  shall  not  be  reported  as 
DYSENTERY.  The  term  "Dysentery"  is  made  notifiable  only 
for  amoebic  and  bacillary  types.  Be  sure  to  state  whether  amoebic 
or  bacillary. 

Sec.  17.  When  reporting  a  case  of  CANCER  always  state 
the  organ  or  part  affected  by  the  cancer.  The  term  "Cancer"  as 
used  in  the  rules  and  regulations  governing  morbidity  reports  in- 
cludes all  malignant  growths  and  should  be  stated  in  the  follow- 
ing manner:  "Cancer  of  tongue,"  "Cancer  of  breast,"  "Cancer  of 
uterus,"  "Cancer  of  stomach,"  "Cancer  of  rectum,"  etc. 

Sec.  18.  The  person  reporting  a  case  must  not  fail  to  SIGN 
THE  REPORT  and  give  postofifice  address.  If  a  physician,  follow 
the  name  with  the  letters  "M.  D."  Since  other  persons  are  re- 
quired to  report  cases,  it  is  very  important  that  the  State  Board  of 
Health  know  the  cases  that  are  reported  by  physicians  so  that  as- 
surance may  be  had  that  the  case  will  be  properly  handled. 

Sec.  19.  Any  person  who  shall  fail,  neglect,  or  refuse  to  com- 
ply with  or  who  shall  violate  any  of  the  provisions  of  these  Rules 
and  Regulations  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and 
upon  conviction  thereof,  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not  less  than 
Five  ($5.00)  Dollars,  nor  more  than  One  Hundred  ($100.00)  Dol- 
lars, as  provided  in  Section  22  of  Chapter  6892  (No.  86)  Laws  of 
1915,  under  which  authority  all  Rules  and  Regulations  governing 
morbidity  reports  were  adopted. 

Sec.  20.  These  Rules  and  Regulations  shall  take  effect  im- 
mediately and  all  rules  and  regulations  or  parts  of  rules  and  regu- 


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lations  inconsistent  with  the  provisions  of  these  Rules  and  Regula- 
tions are  hereby  repealed.  No  provision  of  these  Rules  and  Regu- 
lation shall  be  construed  as  an  attempt  to  appeal  or  amend  any 
statute,  or  part  thereof,  requiring  the  reporting  of  diseases. 

Ins.    No.    53.     Instructions.      Reports    of    Notifiable    Diseases. 

1.  Physicians  shall  report  notifiable  diseases  within  six  hours. 

2.  Every  person  who  treats  or  examines  any  person  afflicted 
with  diseases  made  notifiable  shall  report  within  six  hours. 

3.  All  reports  shall  be  made  to  State  Board  of  Health,  Bureau 
of  Vital  Statistics. 

4.  Envelopes  and  cards  requiring  no  postage  are  furnished 
free.  These  are  addressed  Collaborating  Epidemiologist  and  will 
reach  the  State  Health  Officer  through  the  Bureau  of  Vital 
Statistics. 

5.  Venereal  diseases  shall  be  reported  by  enclosing  the  card  in 
a  sealed  envelope. 

6.  Asiatic  Cholera,  Bubonic  Plague,  Yellow  Fever  and  Small- 
pox shall  be  reported  by  telegraph,  collect. 

7.  Do  not  send  telegrams  to  the  State  Board  of  Health  Col- 
lect, except  for  the  four  diseases  mentioned.  NOTICE — Charges 
will  be  reversed  if  you  do. 

8.  This  is  only  a  brief  outline.  If  you  have  any  questions  on 
the  Morbidity  Rules,  that  are  not  answered,  please  write  to  the 
Bureau  of  Vital  Statistics. 

Rule  No.  54.  Governing  the  Transportation  of  Dead  Bodies. 
Transportation  and  Disinterment  of  Dead  Bodies.  Section  1.  A 
transit  and  Removal  Permit  issued  by  the  Local  Registrar,  his 
Deputy  or  Sub-Registrar  of  the  registration  district  in  which  the 
death  occurred,  or  the  body  was  found,  must  occompany  each  dead 
body  transported  by  a  common  carrier. 

(a)  The  transit  and  removal  permits  must  state  the  place  of 
death,  name  of  deceased,  sex,  color  or  race,  age,  cause  of  death, 
and  the  date  and  hour  of  death. 

(b)  The  transit  permit  shall  also  state  the  date  and  route 
of  shipment,  the  point  of  shipment  and  destination,  the  method  of 
preparation  of  the  body,  and  shall  bear  the  signature  and  title  of 
the  Registrar  who  issued  the  transit  permit. 


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(c)  That  portion  of  the  transit  permit  designated  as  the  label 
shall  be  tacked  (not  pasted)  to  the  outer  box  or  case. 

(d)  The  transit  permit  shall  bear  the  signature  of  the  em- 
balmer  preparing  the  body  for  shipment  and  show  the  number  of 
his  license  issued  by  th'e  Florida  State  Board  of  Embalmers. 

Sec.  2,  The  transportation  of  a  dead  body  due  to  smallpox, 
bubonic  plague,  Asiatic  cholera,  diphtheria  (membranous  croup) 
(diphtheria  sore  throat),  scarlet  fever  (scarlet  rash,  scarletina), 
erysipelas,  glanders,  anthrax  or  leprosy  shall  not  be  accepted  for 
transportation  unless  prepared  in  the  following  manner: 

(a)  Arterial  and  cavity  injection  with  an  approved  disinfect- 
ing fluid ; 

(b)  Disinfection  and  stopping  of  all  orifices  with  absorbent 
cotton ; 

(c)  Washing  the  body  with  a  disinfectant. 

(d)  The  body  shall  be  enveloped  in  a  sheet  or  blanket  satu- 
rated in  a  1-1000  solution  of  corrosive  sublimate; 

(e)  The  body  after  being  prepared  in  the  above  manner  shall 
be  encased  in  an  air-tight  zinc,  tin,  copper  or  lead  lined  coffin  or 
casket,  all  joints  and  seams  hermetically  sealed,  and  all  encased  in 
a  strong  wooden  box;  or,  the  body  placed  in  a  strong  coffin  or 
casket  and  encased  in  an  air-tight  zinc,  tin,  copper  or  lead  lined 
outer  box. 

Sec.  3.  The  transportation  of  a  body  dead  from  typhoid  fever, 
puerperal  fever,  tuberculosis,  or  measles  shall  be  prepared  for 
transportation  as  provided  in  Section  2,  except  paragraphs  (d) 
and  (e). 

Sec.  4.  The  bodies  of  those  dead  from  any  cause  not  specified 
in  Sections  2  and  3  shall  be  accepted  for  transportation,  when  en- 
cased in  a  sound  cofiin  or  casket  and  enclosed  in  a  strong  outside 
wooden  box ;  provided,  that  the  body  will  reach  its  destination 
within  twenty-four  (24)  hours  from  the  time  of  death.  If  the  body 
cannot  reach  its  destination  within  twenty-four  (24)  hours  from 
the  time  of  death  then  the  body  must  be  prepared  as  provided  by 
Section  3. 

Sec.  5.  In  the  shipment  of  bodies  dead  from  any  of  the  diseases 
named  in  Section  2,  such  body  shall  not  be  accompanied  by  per- 
sons or  articles  which  have  been  exposed  to  the  infection  of  the  dis- 
ease, unless  certified  by  the  local  or  State  Health  Officer  as  having 


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been  properly  disinfected.  The  transit  permit  shall  specifically 
state  who  is  authorized  to  accompany  the  body. 

Sec.  6.  No  dead  body  shall  be  disinterred  for  transportation 
without  the  written  consent  of  the  State  Health  Officer. 

All  disinterred  remains  shall  be  enclosed  in  metal  or  metal-lined 
boxes  and  hermetically  sealed  before  being-  offered  for  transporta- 
tion. 

Sec.  7.  The  outside  case  may  be  omitted  in  all  instances  when 
the  coffin  or  casket  is  transported  in  hearse  or  undertaker's  wagon. 

Sec.  8.  Every  outside  case  holding  a  dead  body  offered  for 
transportation  by  common  carrier  shall  bear  at  least  four  handles, 
and  when  over  5  feet  6  inches  in  length  shall  bear  six  handles. 

Sec.  9.  When  dead  bodies  are  to  be  shipped  by  express  all  of 
the  preceding  rules  shall  apply  except  the  transit  and  removal 
permit  shall  be  attached  to  and  accompany  the  waybill. 

Sec.  10.  Bodies  deposited  in  receiving  vaults  shall  not  be 
treated  or  considered  the  same  as  buried  bodies  when  originally 
prepared  by  a  licensed  embalmer,  as  defined  in  Sections  2  and  3 
(according  to  the  disease  causing  death)  :  TProvided,  shipment 
takes  place  within  thirty  f30)   days  after  death. 

Sec.  11.  When  a  body  has  been  held  thirty  (30;  days  from 
date  of  death,  it  shall  be  prepared  in  accordance  with  Section  2  and 
permission  of  the  State  Health  Officer  must  be  obtained  before  the 
body  is  offered  for  transportation. 

Ins.  No.  55.  Instructions  for  Local  Registrars,  Physicians, 
Undertakers,  Casket  Dealers  and  Midwives. 

1.  Required  to  Register.  "That  every  physician,  midwife, 
sexton,  retail  casket  dealer  and  undertaker  shall,  without  delay, 
register  his  or  her  name,  address  and  occupation  and  color  or  race, 
with  the  local  registrar  of  the  district  in  which  he  or  she  resides,  or 
may  hereafter  establish  a  residence.  Xo  fee  or  other  compensation 
shall  be  charged  by  local  registrars  to  physicians,  midwives,  sex- 
tons, retail  casket  dealers,  or  undertakers  for  registering  their 
names  under  this  section." 

2.  Lists  showing  the  names  and  addresses  of  Local  Registrars 
with  the  boundary  of  their  districts  will  be  furnished  on  request  for 
any  County  or  Counties  in  the  State. 


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3.  When  Deputies  Shall  Serve.  Local  Registrars  must  not 
delegate  to  their  deputies  the  performance  o'f  any  of  their  duties, 
except  in  the  absence  or  disability  of  themselves. 

4.  Compensation  of  Deputies.  The  compensation  of  Deputy 
Registrars  must  be  arranged  for  and  agreed  upon  between  the  said 
Deputy  and  the  Local  Registrar.  All  payments  under  the  pro- 
visions of  the  act  will  be  made  to  the  Local  Registrar. 

5.  Penalties.  Local  Registrars  shall  be  charged  with  fhe  en- 
forcement of  all  the  provisions  of  the  Vital  Statistics  Law  within 
their  respective  districts.  (For  violation  of  Vital  Statistics  Law, 
see  Section  22). 

6.  Return  of  All  Original  Certificates.  The  Local  Registrar 
shall  on  the  10th  day  of  each  month  transmit  to  the  Bureau  of 
Vital  Statistics  all  original  certificates  received  and  registered  by 
him  for  births  and  deaths  which  have  occurred  in  any  previous 
month. 

7.  Report  of  No  Births  and  No  Deaths.  When  no  births  or 
deaths  have  been  reported  during  the  previous  month,  the  Local 
Regstrar  shall,  on  the  10th  day  of  the  month,  report  the  fact  on  a 
postal  card  (Form  V.  S.  No,  15)  provided  for  that  purpose. 

8.  Monthly  Return  Card.  The  Local  Registrar  shall  forward 
with  each  monthly  return  of  birth  or  death  certificates  a  Monthly 
Statement  Card  (Form  V.  S.  No.  7)  showing  the  exact  number 
of  certificates  enclosed.  Care  in  observing  this  rule  will  aid  in 
the  payment  of  fees  to  Local  Registrars. 

9.  Supply  of  Blanks.  Local  Registrars  must  keep  constantly 
on  hand  a  sufficient  quantity  of  the  proper  blanks  for  distribution 
to  persons  authorized  to  receive  them  and  to  conduct  the  business 
of  their  offices. 

10.  Requisition  for  Blanks.  Requisitions  for  additional  sup- 
plies should  be  made  when  necessary  upon  Form  V.  S.  No.  24,  and 
forwarded  with  monthly  report. 

11.  All  Certificates  to  be  Plainly  Written  in  Ink.  All  birth  and 
death  certificates  must  be  plainly  written  with  durable  black  ink. 
If  the  writing  should  be  so  poor  as  to  be  unintelligible  to  the  Local 
Registrar,  it  will  be  equally  so  to  the  employees  of  the  Bureau  of 
Vital  Statistics. 

12.  Compensation  of  Local  Registrars.     Each  Local  Registrar 


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shall  be  entitled  to  receive  the  sum  of  twenty-five  cents  for  each 
death  and  birth  certificate,  properly  and  completely  made  out, 
registered,  correctly  copied  and  duly  returned  to  the  Bureau  of 
Vital  Statistics  within  the  time  specified  by  the  Vital  Statistics  Act 
(Section  20). 

13.  How  Payments  Are  Made  to  Registrars.  Payment  of  fees 
due  Local  Registrars  for  the  registration  of  births  and  deaths  will 
be  made  annually.  Upon  receipt  of  the  December  report  which 
is  made  to  this  office  on  the  tenth  of  January,  the  Bureau  will  make 
out  a  statement  of  the  number  of  births  and  deaths  and  the  number 
of  reports  of  no  births  and  deaths  which  will  be  mailed  immediately 
to  the  Ivocal  Registrar.  This  statement  will  serve  as  an  approval 
blank  which,  when  signed  by  the  Local  Registrar,  approves  the 
amounts  credited  by  the  Bureau  for  the  registration  work.  These 
blanks  in  reality  are  bills  against  the  State  Board  of  Health  for 
services  as  Registrars.  When  such  bills  are  approved  by  the  Local 
Registrars,  they  will,  upon  their  receipt  by  the  Bureau  be  vouch- 
ered  and  immediately  sent  to  the  Comptroller,  who  will  in  due 
time  mail  a  State  Warrant  payable  from  the  funds  of  the  State 
Board  of  Health. 

14.  Definition  of  Terms  Used  in  the  Law  and  Instructions, 
Physicians.  The  term  "Physician"  as  used  in  the  Act  and  Instruc- 
tions of  the  State  Registrar,  refers  to  any  person  granted  a  license 
to  practice  medicine  within  the  State  of  Florida. 

15.  Midwife.  The  term  "Midwife"  applies  to  any  woman  that 
makes  it  a  business  of  attending  women  during  confinement  (child- 
birth). Midwives  are  not  licensed  by  the  State  of  Florida,  except 
in  some  of  the  cities.  In  those  cities  licensing  midwives  the  prac- 
tice of  midwifery  is  limited  to  those  who  are  licensed  for  that 
purpose. 

16.  Undertaker.  An  "Undertaker"  is  any  person  that  makes 
a  business  of  burying  dead  bodies.  The  term  "person  acting  as 
such"  (undertaker)  refers  to  any  person  having  charge  of  the 
burial  or  other  disposition  of  a  dead  body.  In  most  instances,  the 
persons  acting  as  an  undertaker  is  a  relative  or  neighbor.  The 
term  "undertaker"  must  not  be  confused  with  the  term  "Em- 
balmer."  Any  person  can  be  an  undertaker  and  bury  the  dead,  but 
an  embalmer  must  be  licensed.     An  embalmer  is  required  to  pre- 


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pare  certain  bodies  for  shipment  by  railway  or  boat.     (See  em- 
balmer). 

17.  Embalmer.  The  term  "embalmer"  applies  only  to  those 
persons  licensed.  All  bodies  dead  from  certain  diseases  or  that  can- 
not reach  their  destination  within  a  specified  time,  must  be  pre- 
pared for  shipment  by  a  licensed  embalmer  before  such  bodies  can 
be  accepted  for  transportation  by  a  common  carrier. 

18.  Sexton.  The  term  "sexton"  applies  to  any  person  havmg 
charge  of  a  public  cemetery  or  graveyard.  In  case  of  private  ceme- 
teries the  landowner,  if  residing  upon  the  premises,  will  be  con- 
sidered the  sexton.  But  in  case  the  place  is  occupied  by  a  tenant, 
the  said  tenant  would,  within  the  meaning  of  the  Act  and  instruc- 
tions be  regarded  as  the  sexton. 

19.  Registration  District.  The  term  "Registration  District" 
applies  to  the  area  within  the  jurisdiction  of  a  Local  Registrar.  A 
Registration  district  may  be  only  a  municipality,  or  a  voting  pre- 
cinct, or  a  municipality  and  one  or  more  voting  precincts  combined. 
The  term  "Registration  District"  is  provided  for  in  the  Act  and  is 
only  used  in  connection  with  the  registration  of  births  and  deaths. 

20.  Common  Carrier.  As  used  in  the  Instructions  and  Rules 
and  Regulations,  refers  to  Railroads  (Steam  or  Electric)  and 
Steamboats  or  Sailing  Vessels. 

21.  Statistical  Definition  of  Stillbirths.  Children  born  alive 
and  living  for  any  time  whatever,  no  matter  how  brief,  after  birth, 
should  not  be  classed  as  stillbirths,  even  though  reported  by  the 
attending  physician.  For  registration  purposes,  stillbirths  should 
include  all  children  born  who  do  not  live  any  time  whatever,  no 
matter  how  brief,  after  birth.  Birth  (completion  of  birth)  is  the 
instant  of  complete  separation  of  the  entire  body  (not  the  body  in 
the  restricted  sense  of  trunk,  but  the  entire  organism,  including 
the  head,  trunk  and  limbs)  of  the  child  from  the  body  of  the 
mother.  The  umbilical  cord  need  not  be  cut  or  the  placenta  de- 
tached in  order  to  constitute  complete  birth  for  registration  pur- 
poses. A  child  dead  or  dying  a  moment  before  the  instant  of  birth 
is  a  stillbirth,  and  one  living  a  moment,  no  matter  how  brief,  after 
birth,  was  a  living  child  and  should  not  be  registered  as  a  still- 
birth. No  child  that  shows  any  evidence  of  life  after  birth  should 
be  registered  as  a  stillbirth. 


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22.  Persons  Responsible  for  Birth  Reports.  The  responsibility 
for  reporting  all  births  which  may  occur  within  the  State  is  placed 
upon  the  physician  or,  midwife  in  attendance  at  the  time  of  birth. 
If  there  should  be  no  physician  or  midwife  in  attendance,  then  the 
responsibility  for  reporting  the  birth  shall  rest  in  the  order  in 
which  they  are  named,  upon  the  father,  mother,  householder,  or 
owner  of  the  premises,  or  upon  the  manager  or  superintendent  of 
any  public  or  private  institution  in  which  the  birth  occurs. 

23.  Date  of  Reports.  The  report  of  any  birth  must  be  made 
within  ten  days  of  the  date  of  birth. 

24.  Numbering  of  Certificates.  Upon  the  receipt  by  the  Local 
Registrar  of  a  certificate  in  which  all  of  the  items,  according  to  his 
opinion,  are  fully  and  correctly  answered,  he  shall  number  the  cer- 
tificate, beginning  with  number  ''1"  for  the  first  birth  and  "1"  for 
the  first  death  in  each  calendar  year  and  number  the  certificates 
consecutively.  He  shall  fill  in  the  information  required  as  to  the 
city,  town,  or  voting  precinct  and  county,  if  it  has  been  omitted  by 
the  person  making  the  certificate,  and  state  the  number  of  the 
registration  and  primary  registration  district. 

25.  Signing  and  Dating  Certificates.  He  shall  then  sign  his 
name  as  Local  Registrar  in  attest  of  the  date  of  the  filing  of  the 
certificate  in  his  ofiice. 

26.  Birth  Certificates  for  Unnamed  Children.  If  a  certificate 
of  birth  is  presented  to  the  Local  Registrar  without  any  given  name, 
he  shall  make  out  and  deliver  to  the  informant  the  special  blank  for 
supplying  the  given  name,  which  form  (V.  S.  No.  16)  shall  be  filled 
out  and  returned  to  him  as  soon  as  the  child  shall  be  named. 

27.  Twins,  Triplets  or  Other  Plural  Births.  In  case  of  birth 
of  twins,  triplets  or  other  plural  births,  the  Local  Registrar  should 
require  the  physician,  or  person  making  the  report,  to  file  a  cer- 
tificate for  each  child  born,  giving  the  number  of  each  child  in  its 
order  of  birth. 

28.  Burial  or  Removal  Permits  Required  in  All  Cases  of  Death. 

The  body  of  any  person  whose  death  occurs  within  the  State  shall 
not  be  interred,  deposited  in  a  vault  or  tomb,  cremated  or  other- 
wise disposed  of,  or  removed  from  or  into  any  registration  district 
until  a  permit  for  burial,  removal  or  other  disposition  shall  have 
been  properly  issued  by  the  Local  Registrar  of  the  registration  dis- 


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trict  in  which  the  death  occurred  or  the  body  was  found,  and  no 
such  burial  or  removal  permit  shall  be  issued  by  any  Local 
Registrar  until  a  complete  and  satisfactory  certificate  for  the  death 
has  been  filed  with  him.  This  requirement,  an  absolutely  essential 
one,  forms  the  foundation  for  all  subsequent  work  in  the  collection 
of  mortality  statistics. 

29.  Undertaker  Responsible  for  Filing  Death  Certificate.  The 
undertaker  or  person  acting  as  undertaker  is  required  to  file  a 
death  certificate  with  the  Local  Registrar  and  secure  a  burial  or 
removal  permit  before  moving  a  body.     (V.  S.  Law,  Section  9). 

30.  Medical  Certificate  of  Death.  The  physician  is  not  held  re- 
sponsible for  the  reporting  of  a  death.  His  only  duty  in  connec- 
tion with  the  reporting  of  a  death  is  to  make  out  the  portion  of  the 
death  certificate,  over  his  signature,  which  is  designated  as  the 
Medical  Certificate  of  Death. 

31.  Refusal  of  Permit  for  Lack  of  Information.  If  upon  ex- 
amination the  answer  to  any  question  is  indefinite  and  unsatis- 
factory, and  the  circumstances  of  the  case  would  make  it  appear 
that  this  item  could  be  more  fully  and  definitely  answered,  it  shall 
be  the  duty  of  the  Local  Registrar  to  refuse  to  grant  a  burial  or 
removal  permit,  until  the  missing  information  has  been  properly 
supplied.  A  plain  statement  of  the  exact  cause  of  death  by  the 
medical  attendant  is  imperative. 

32.  Burial  Permit  When  Interment  is  to  Take  Place  in  District 
in  Which  Death  Occurred.  If  the  interment,  or  other  disposition 
of  the  body  is  to  be  made  within  his  registration  district,  he  shall 
issue  a  burial  permit  for  the  same  upon  Form  V.  S.  No.  6,  supplied 
for  this  purpose  and  make  an  entry  of  the  items  specified  upon  the 
stubs  attached  to  each  form,  to  be  retained  in  his  ofifice.  The  per- 
mit shall  then  be  delivered  to  the  undertaker  or  person  in  charge 
of  the  body. 

33.  Return  of  Burial  or  Removal  Permit.  Burial  or  removal 
permits  shall  be  deliver-ed  by  the  undertaker  to  the  sexton,  or  the 
person  in  charge  of  the  burial  grounds  and  be  by  him  returned  to 
the  Local  Registrar  of  the  district  in  which  the  interment  was  made, 
within  ten  days  from  the  date  of  interment.  When  no  sexton  or 
other  person  is  in  charge  of  a  cemetery  (public  or  private),  the 
undertaker,  or  person  acting  as  such,  shall  sign  the  burial  or  re- 


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moval  permit  as  sexton  and  write  across  the  face  of  the  permit  the 
words  "No  Person  in  Charge,"  and  file  the  permit  within  ten  days 
with  the  Local  Registrar  of  the  registration  district  in  which  the 
cemetery  is  located. 

34.  Shipment  of  Dead  Bodies  by  Common  Carrier.  In  case  it 
is  necessary  to  ship  the  body  by  common  carrier,  it  shall  be  the 
duty  of  the  Local  Registrar,  in  addition  to  issuing  a  removal  per- 
mit to  comply  with  the  Rules  of  the  State  Board  of  Health  of 
Florida  for  Transportation  of  the  Dead.     (See  Rule  No.  54). 

35.  Disinterred  Bodies  Not  to  be  Shipped  Until  Disinterment  is 
Approved  by  State  Health  Officer.  No  Local  Registrar  will  issue 
a  burial  or  removal  and  transit  permit  for  a  disinterred  body  until 
the  disinterment  has  been  approved  by  the  State  Health  Officer. 
The  approval  of  the  State  Health  Officer  for  the  disinterment  of  a 
dead  body  can  be  obtained  only  by  making  application  on  Form 
V.  S.  No.  25  which  is  provided  for  that  purpose.  Local  Regis- 
trars are  required  to  have  one  or  two  of  these  blanks  on  hand  at 
all  times  in  order  that  no  delay  may  be  caused  those  that  may  de- 
sire to  disinter  a  dead  body.  No  Local  Registrar  will  issue  any 
permit  for  such  bodies  until  he  is  presented  with  the  State  Health 
Officer's  approval.  The  State  Health  Officer's  approval  will  be 
granted  on  Form  V.  S.  No.  116,  which  form  is  to  be  retained  by 
the  Local  Registrar  and  serves  as  his  authority  for  issuing  per- 
mits for  disinterred  bodies. 

36.  Local  Registrar's  Copy  of  Death  Certificate.  Having  re- 
ceived, properly  numbered  and  signed  a  death  certificate,  the  Local 
Registrar  shall  make  a  complete  and  accurate  copy  of  each  cer- 
tificate, in  a  record  book  provided  for  that  purpose  (Form  V.  S. 
No.  5),  which  shall  be  permanently  preserved  in  his  office  in  such 
a  manner  as  to  be  accessible  for  reference  at  all  times.  (See  Sec- 
tion 19  of  the  Vital  Statistics  Law). 

Z7 .  Death  Without  Medical  Attendant.  In  case  of  any  death 
occurring  without  medical  attendance,  which  may  be  brought  to 
the  notice  of  the  Local  Registrar,  he  shall  inform  the  local  health 
officer  of  the  fact  and  refer  the  case  to  him  for  immediate  investiga- 
tion and  certification.  If  the  Local  Health  Officer  is  not  a  qualified 
physician,  or  if  there  be  no  such  official,  then,  and  in  such  case  only, 
the  Local  Registrar  is  authorized  to  make  the  medical  certificate 


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and  return,  from  the  statement  of  the  relatives  or  other  persons  hav- 
ing adequate  knowledge  of  the  facts,  provided,  that  if  the  circum- 
stances of  the  case  render  it  probable  that  the  death  was  caused  by 
unlawful  or  suspicious  means,  the  Local  Registrar  shall  then  refer 
the  case  to  the  coroner  for  his  investigation  and  certification. 

38.  Coroner's  Certificate.  Any  death  certificate  supplied  by 
a  coroner  shall  contain  the  specified  items  of  information  as  re- 
quired in  all  other  cases  and  the  medical  statement  shall  be  specific 
as  to  the  nature  of  the  disease  or  the  manner  of  death,  and  if  from 
external  causes  or  violence,  whether  (probably)  accidental,  suici- 
dal or  homicidal  as  determined  by  the  inquest. 

39.  When  Transit  Permits  Are  Not  Required.  Transit  per- 
mits will  not  be  required  when  bodies  are  removed  from  one  regis- 
tration district  to  another  nearby  district  by  hearse  or  undertaker's 
wagon.  The  removal  permit  of  the  Local  Registrar  of  the  district 
in  which  the  death  occurred  will  in  such  case  be  sufficient  authority 
to  permit  the  removal  and  burial  without  any  further  permit  from 
the  Local  Registrar  of  the  district  in  which  the  body  is  buried. 

40.  Bodies  Received  By  Common  Carrier.  WHen  bodies  are 
received  into  any  registration  district  by  common  carrier,  if  from 
points  without  the  State  of  Florida,  they  must  be  accompanied  by 
a  transit  and  removal  permit,  issued  in  conformity  with  the  law 
and  health  regulations  of  the  place  where  the  death  occurred.  This 
permit  must  be  delivered  to  the  Local  Registrar  of  the  district  in 
which  the  interment  is  to  be  made,  who  shall  issue  a  local  burial 
permit  in  the  same  way  as  if  the  death  occurred  in  his  district,  and 
enter  upon  the  face  of  the  permit  the  fact  that  it  was  a  body 
shipped  in  for  interment.  No  Local  Registrar,  shall,  as  such,  re- 
quire from  undertakers  or  persons  acting  as  undertakers  any  fee 
for  the  privilege  of  burying  a  dead  body. 

41.  Stillbirths  Registered  as  Both  Births  and  Deaths.  Still- 
born children  or  those  dead  at  birth,  shall  be  registered  as  births 
and  also  as  deaths  and  a  certificate  of  both  the  birth  and  death 
shall  be  filed  with  the  Local  Registrar  in  the  usual  form  and  man- 
ner, the  certificate  of  birth  to  contain,  in  place  of  the  name  of  the 
child,  the  word  "stillbirth."  CSee  Section  6,  Vital  Statistics  Law). 
The  cause  of  death  in  the  medical  certificate  shall  be  given  as 
"stillborn"  and  if  the  cause  of  the  stillbirth  is  known,  it  shall  be 
stated. 


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42.  Burial  or  Removal  Permits  Requirdti  for  Stillborn  Children. 

Burial  or  removal  permits  shall  be  issued  for  stillborn  children  in 
the  same  manner  as  if  death  occurred  from  other  causes,  and  a 
certificate  of  death  shall  be  required  in  all  such  cases  which  have 
passed  the  fifth  month  of  uterogestation.  (See  Section  6,  Vital 
Statistics  Law). 

43.  Midwives  Must  Not  Sign  Death  Certificates.  Certificates 
of  death  for  stillborn  children  or  other  deaths,  must  not  be  accepted 
from  midwives.  Such  cases  and  stillbirths  occurring  without  the 
attention  of  either  physician  or  midwife  shall  be  treated  in  the 
same  manner  as  other  deaths  occurring  without  medical  attendance. 

44.  Retail  Casket  Dealer.  The  term  "Retail  Casket  Dealer" 
means  any  person,  firm  or  corporation  selling  coffins  or  caskets  at 
retail.  The  second  paragraph  of  Section  9,  of  the  Vital  Statistics 
Law  (the  law  requiring  the  registration  of  births  and  deaths)  re- 
quires every  person,  firm  or  corporation  selling  caskets  or  coffins 
at  retail  to  keep  a  record  of  each  sale.  This  requirement  applies 
to  the  undertaker  or  embalmer  who  sells  a  coffin  or  casket  when 
the  undertaker  or  embalmer  does  not  have  direct  charge  of  the 
disposal  of  the  body. 

45.  Casket  Dealers  Monthly  Report.  Casket  dealers  must 
make  a  report  on  the  first  day  of  each  month  to  the  Bureau  of  Vital 
Statistics  on  Form  V.  S.  No.  10.  Such  report  to  cover  the  sale  of 
each  coffin  or  casket  during  the  previous  month. 

46.  This  is' only  a  brief  outline.  If  you  have  any  questions  on 
the  Vital  Statistics  Law  that  are  not  answered,  please  write  to  the 
Bureau  of  Vital  Statistics. 

Rule  No.  56.     Venereal  Disease  Control. 

Section  1.  Reporting  Venereal  Diseases.  All  cases  of  venereal 
diseases  shall  be  reported,  as  provided  in  Section  6,  Chapter 
7829  (47),  Laws  of  Florida,  and  in  accordance  with  Rules  and 
Regulations  of  the  State  Board  of  Health.  All  cases  of  venereal 
disease  shall  be  reported  on  a  card.  Form  V.  S.  124  and  inclosed 
and  sealed  in  a  stamped  or  franked  envelope  provided  by  the  State 
Board  of  Health.  All  cases  of  venereal  disease  must  be  so  reported 
within  forty-eight  hours  after  first  diagnosis  or  treatment. 

Sec.  2.     Instructions    and    Information   to    be    Given    Patients. 


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It  shall  be  the  duty  o£' every  physician  and  of  every  other  person 
who  examines  or  treats  a  person  infected  v^ith  syphilis,  gonorrhea 
or  chancroid,  to  instruct  such  person  in  measures  for  preventing 
the  spread  of  such  diseases,  and  to  inform  such  person  of  the  neces- 
sity for  treatment  until  cured,  and  to  hand  such  person  a  copy  of 
the  circular  of  information  obtainable  for  this  purpose  from  the 
State  Board  of  Health. 

Sec.  3.  Providing  for  a  Proper  Follow-up  System  of  Cases. 
When  a  person  applies  to  a  physician  or  other  person  for  the 
diagnosis  or  treatment  of  syphilis,  gonorrhea  or  chancroid,  it  shall 
be  the  duty  of  the  physician  or  person  so  consulted  to  inquire  of 
and  ascertain  from  the  person  seeking  such  diagnosis  or  treat- 
ment whether  such  person  has  heretofore  consulted  with  or  has 
been  treated  by  any  other  physician  or  person  and,  if  so,  to  ascer- 
tain the  name  and  address  of  the  physician  or  person  last  con- 
sulted. It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  applicant  for  diagnosis  or  treat- 
ment to  furnish  this  information,  and  a  refusal  to  do  so  or  a  falsifi- 
cation of  the  name  and  address  of  such  physician  or  presons  con- 
sulted by  such  applicant  shall  be  deemed  a  violation  of  these  Rules 
and  Regulations.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  the  physician  or  other 
person  whom  the  applicant  consults  to  notify  the  physician  or  other 
person  last  consulted  of  a  change  of  advisers.  Should  the  physi- 
cian or  person  previously  consulted  fail  to  receive  such  notice 
within  ten  days  after  the  last  date  upon  which  the  patient  was 
instructed  by  him  to  appear,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  such  physician 
or  person  to  report  to  the  State  Health  OfiEicer,  the  name  and  ad- 
dress of  such  venereally  diseased  person,  setting  forth  the  essen- 
tial facts  in  the  case. 

If  an  attending  physician  or  other  person  knows  or  has  good 
reason  to  suspect  that  a  person  having  syphilis,  gonorrhea  or  chan- 
croid is  so  conducting  himself  or  herself  as  to  expose  other  persons 
to  infection,  or  is  about  so  to  conduct  himself  or  herself,  he  shall 
notify  the  State  Health  Officer  of  the  name  and  address  of  the 
diseased  person  and  the  essential  facts  in  the  case. 

Sec.  4.  Health  Officers  Shall  Protect  Public.  Whenever  infor- 
mation shall  reach  any  Municipal  or  County  Health  Officer  or  any 
duly  accredited  representative  of  the  State  Health  Officer  concern- 
ing the  existence  of  a  case  of  venereal  disease  which  may  necessi- 
tate action  on  the  part  of  said  health  officer  under  the  provisions 


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of  Section  7,  Chapter  7829  (47),  Laws  of  Florida,  Session  1919, 
said  Municipal  or  County  Health  Officer  or  representative  of  tne 
State  Health  Officer  is  hereby  directed  to  investigate  such  informa- 
tion received  and  to  take  appropriate  action  in  each  case  to  pro- 
tect the  public  health. 

Sec.  5.  Providing  for  Treatment  and  Discipline.  Whenever 
it  shall  be  necessary  to  confine  cases  of  venereal  disease  for  treat- 
ment the  following  regulations  shall  be  in  force: 

1.  The  surgeon  in  charge  is  authorized  and  directed  to  pre- 
scribe proper  treatment  for  the  person  in  isolation,  such  treatment 
to  include  suitable  work  in  sufficient  amount  to  maintain  the  physi- 
cal well-being  of  the  person  so  detained  under  isolation. 

2.  The  authorities  in  charge  of  a  place  used  for  detention  and 
isolation  of  such  persons  are  authorized  to  take  such  disciplinary 
measures  as  may  be  necessary  to  maintain  order,  secure  obedience 
to  the  rules  and  regulations  of  the  institution  and  to  carry  out  the; 
purposes  for  which  isolation  is  maintained. 

Sec.  6.  Prostitution  to  be  Repressed.  Prostitution  is  hereby 
declared  to  be  a  prolific  source  of  syphilis,  gonorrhea  and  chan- 
croid, and  the  repression  of  prostitution  is  declared  to  be  a  public 
health  measure.  All  Municipal  and  County  Health  Officers  and 
duly  accredited  representatives  of  the  State  Board  of  Health  are 
therefore  authorized  and  directed  to  cooperate  with  the  proper 
officials  whose  duty  it  is  to  enforce  laws  directed  against  prostitu- 
tion and  otherwise  to  use  every  proper  means  for  the  repression 
of  prostitution. 

Sec.  7.  Protection  of  Others  From  Infection  by  Venereally 
Diseased  Persons.  Upon  receipt  of  a  report  of  a  case  of  venereal 
disease  the  State  Health  Officer  or  his  duly  accredited  representa- 
tive shall  have  power  to  institute  measures  for  the  protection  of 
other  persons  from  infection  by  such  venereally  diseased  person. 

1.  The  State  Health  Officer  or  his  duly  accredited  representa- 
tive is  authorized  and  directed  to  isolate  persons  who  have  syphilis, 
gonorrhea  or  chancroid,  whenever,  in  the  opinion  of  the  State 
Health  Officer  or  his  duly  accredited  representative,  isolation  is 
necessary  for  the  protection  of  the  public  health.  If  any  person 
suspected  of  being  infected  with  syphilis,  gonorrhea  or  chancroid 
should  refuse  to  voluntarily  submit  to  examination,  the  health 
officer  shall  in  that  event  follow  the  procedure  set  forth  in  Sections 


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4  and  7  of.  Chapter  7829  (47).  In  establishing  isolation  the  health 
officer  shall  designate  and  define  the  limits  of  the  area  in  which 
the  person  known  to  have  syphilis,  gonorrhea  or  chancroid  and  his 
immediate  attendant  are  to  be  isolated  and  no  persons  other  than 
the  attending  physician  shall  enter  or  leave  the  area  of  quarantine 
without  the  permission  of  the  State  Health  Officer  or  his  duly 
accredited  representative. 

No  one  but  the  State  Health  Officer  or  his  duly  accredited 
representative  shall  terminate  said  isolation  and  this  shall  not  be 
done  until  the  diseased  person  has  become  noninfectious,  as  de- 
termined by  the  State  Health  Officer  or  his  duly  accredited  repre- 
sentative through  clinical  examination  and  all  necessary  labora- 
tory tests,  or  for  other  sufficient  reason  the  State  Health  Officer 
or  his  duly  accredited  representative  shall  deem  it  proper  to  sooner 
terminate  said  isolation. 

2.  The  State  Health  Officer  or  his  duly  accredited  representa- 
tive shall  inform  all  persons  who  are  about  to  be  released  from 
isolation  for  venereal  disease,  in  case  they  are  not  cured,  what 
further  treatment  should  be  taken  to  complete  their  cure.  Any 
person  not  cured  before  release  from  isolation  shall  be  required 
to  sign  the  following  statement  after  the  blank  spaces  have  been 
filled  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  health  officer : 

I,   residing  at , 

hereby  acknowledge  the  fact  that  I  am  at  this  time  infected  with 

,   and   agree  to  place  myself  under  the 

medical  care  of • , 

Name  of  physician  or  clinic 

,   within 

Address 

hours,  and  that  I  will  remain  under  treatment  of  said  physician 
or  clinic  until  released  by  the  State  Health  Officer  or  his  duly  ac- 
credited representative,  or  until  my  case  is  transferred  with  the  ap- 
proval of  said  health  officer  to  another  regularly  licensed  physician 
or  an  approved  clinic. 

I  hereby  agree  to  report  to  the  State  Health  Officer  within 
four  days  after  beginning  treatment  as  above  agreed,  and  will  send 
to  said  health  officer  a  statement  from  the  above  physician  or 
clinic  of  the  medical  treatment  applied  in  my  case,  and  thereafter 
■will  report  as  often  as  may  be  demanded  of  me  by  the  health 
officer. 


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I  agree,  further,  that  I  will  take  all  precautions  recommended 
by  the  said  health  officer  to  prevent  the  spread  of  the  above  disease 
to  other  persons,  and  that  I  will  not  perform  any  act  which  would 
expose  other  persons  to  the  above  disease. 

I  agree,  until  finally  released  by  the  health  officer,  to  notify  him 
of  any  changes  of  address  and  to  obtain  his  consent  before  moving 
my  abode  outside  an  area  designated  by  the  health  officer. 


Signature 


Date 

All  persons  signing  the  above  agreement  shall  observe  its  pro- 
visions, and  any  failure  so  to  do  shall  be  a  violation  of  these  Rules 
and  Regulations.  All  such  agreements  shall  be  filed  with  the 
State  Health  Officer  and  kept  inaccessible  to  the  public. 

Sec.  8.  To  Prevent  Spread  of  Venereal  Diseases  by  Itinerant 
Prostitutes  in  Rural  Communities  and  in  Rural  Industrial  Plants. 

1.  No  person  infected  with  syphilis,  gonococcus  infection  or 
chancroid  shall  enter  the  State  of  Florida  or  take  up  residence 
within  the  state  except  upon  permit  in  writing  issued  by  the  State 
Health  Officer  or  his  duly  accredited  representative.  The  permit 
shall  state  that,  in  the  opinion  of  the  issuing  officer,  the  proposed 
travel  or  change  of  residence  is  not  dangerous  to  the  public  health. 
Such  permits  granted  to  residents  of  other  states  shall  be  trans- 
mitted through  the  State  or  local  health  officer  having  jurisdic- 
tion at  the  place  of  residence,  or  when  this  is  impracticable,  copies 
shall  be  mailed  to  the  said  State  or  local  health  officer. 

2.  No  person  infected  with  syphilis,  gonococcus  infection  or 
chancroid  shall  travel  from  one  county  to  another  within  the  state, 
or  from  one  community  to  another  within  the  same  county  except 
upon  a  permit  granted  by  the  local  health  officer  under  whose  juris- 
diction such  person  resides  or  by  the  State  Health  Officer  or  his 
duly  accredited  representative.  The  permit  shall  state  that,  in  the 
opinion  of  the  health  officer,  the  proposed  travel  is  not  dangerous 
to  public  health. 

3.  No  person  infected  with  syphilis,  gonococcus  infection  or 
chancroid  shall  change  residence  from  one  county  to  another  with- 
in the  state  or  from  one  community  to  another  within  the  same 


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county  except  upon  a  permit  in  writing  from  the  local  health 
officer  of  the  jurisdiction  from  which  such  person  proposes  to 
move  or  from  the  State  Health  Officer  or  his  duly  accredited  rep- 
resentative. An  applicant  for  a  permit  to  change  such  residence 
shall  inform  the  health  officer  to  whom  application  is  made  as  to 
the  intended  place  of  residence,  and  shall  agree  in  writing  to 
report  in  person  to  the  proper  health  officer  one  week  after  arrival 
at  the  new  place  of  residence. 

It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  health  officer  who  issues  a  permit 
for  change  of  residence  to  another  jurisdiction  to  promptly  notify 
the  health  officer  under  whose  jurisdiction  the  infected  person 
proposes  to  enter,  that  such  a  permit  has  been  issued.  This  notice 
shall  contain  the  name  and  address  of  the  infected  person. 

Upon  receiving  such  notice  any  health  officer  shall   ascertain 

and  report  the  arrival  of  such  infected  person  to  the  health  officer 

who  issued  the  permit  for  change  of  residence,  and  shall  also  notify 

the  State  Board  of  Health  that  such  change  of  residence  has  taken 

place^ 

t 

4.  Each  application  for  a  permit  to  travel  or  change  residence 
must  contain  an  agreement  signed  by  'the  applicant  to  continue 
treatment  under  the  direction  of  a  legally  licensed  physician  until 
permission  to  discontinue  treatment  has  been  received  from  the 
health  officer.  No  health  officer  shall  permit  the  discontinuance  of 
treatment  under  such  conditions  until  the  infected  person  has  be- 
come non-infectious  according  to  the  standards  fixed  by  the  State 
Board  of  Health. 

Sec.  9.  For  Proper  Protection  of  Schools.  No  person  infected 
with  a  venereal  disease  (gonorrhea,  syphilis  or  chancroid)  shall 
be  permitted  to  attend,  teach  or  be  otherwise  employed  in  any 
private,  parochial  or  public  school  or  any  college  or  university. 

Sec.  10.    Certain  Occupations  and  Services  Prohibited.     1.    No 

person  infected  with  syphilis,  gonococcus  infection  or  chancroid 
shall  apply  for  service,  be  served  or  employed  in  a  public  bath 
room  or  swimming  pool  and  no  person  infected  with  syphilis  in  a 
communicable  form  shall  apply  for  service  or  be  served  in  any 
barber  shop,  nor  shall  any  person  infected  with  syphilis,  gono- 
coccus infection  or  chancroid  be  employed  or  permitted  to  perform 
any  service  in  any  barber  shop. 


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2.  No  person  infected  with  syphilis,  gonococcus  Infection  or 
chancroid  shall  engage  in  the  occupation  of  nurse,  nurse-maid,  do- 
mestic servant,  barber,  hairdresser,  manicurist,  chiropodist,  bath 
attendant,  masseur  or  any  other  occupation  in  which  syphilis  or 
gonococcus  infection  may  be  transmitted  to  others. 

3.  No  person  infected  with  syphilis,  gonococcus  infection  or 
chancroid  shall  engage  in  any  occupation  which  involves  intimate 
contact  with  children. 

4.  No  person  infected  with  syphilis,  gonococcus  infection  or 
chancroid  shall  engage  in  any  occupation  which  involves  the 
preparation,  handling,  serving  or  dispensing,  by  the  infected  per- 
son, of  foods,  drugs  or  beverages  intended  for  the  use  of  others. 

Sec.  11.  Providing  for  Punishment  for  Violations.  Any  per- 
son wilfully  violating  any  of  the  foregoing  Rules  and  Regulations 
promulgated  by  the  State  Board  of  Health  under  the  authority 
of  the  Laws  of  Florida,  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and  may 
be  punished  as  for  a  misdemeanor. 

Ins.  No.  57.  Instructions  as  to  Proper  Procedure  for  Control  of 
Venereal  Diseases. 

1.  When  the  names  and  addresses  of  persons  infected  with 
venereal  diseases  are  reported  by  physicians,  the  procedure  should 
be  such  as  will  extend  every  proper  courtesy  to  the  physician  mak- 
ing the  report,  duly  respect  the  confidential  nature  of  the  informa- 
tion, and  adequately  protect  the  public  health.  Should  the  report 
be  made  direct  to  the  local  health  officer,  it  is  advisable  to  see  the 
physician  personally,  if  practicable,  and  get  all  the  information 
possible  as  to  the  character  of  such  infected  person  and  the  likeli- 
hood that  the  patient's  conduct  may  be  such  as  likely  to  spread  the 
disease  to  others. 

2.  After  a  conference  with  the  attending  physician,  if  it  is 
deemed  necessary,  a  private  interview  should  be  sought  with  the 
patient  at  the  earliest  opportunity.  The  purpose  of  the  interview 
should  be  disclosed  to  no  one  except  the  patient.  The  provisions  of 
the  State  Rules  and  Regulations  and  local  ordinances,  if  any  have 
been  passed,  should  be  carefully  explained  so  that  the  patient  may 
fully  appreciate  the  powers  which  the  health  officer  may  exercise 
under  such  Rules,  Regulations  or  Ordinances.  It  is  probable  that  a 
plain  talk  of  this  kind,  in  which  the  patient  is  given  to  understand 


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that  he  must  follow  instructions  or  he  may  be  placed  in  isolation 
by  the  health  officer,  will  be  sufficient  to  deter  him  from  exposing 
others.  If  not,  in  order  to  protect  the  public  health,  it  is  the  duty 
of  the  health  officer  to  institute  isolation  without  delay. 

3.  When  the  persons  whose  names  are  reported  are  known  to 
be  prostitutes  or  pimps,  or  to  be  engaged  in  any  way  in  com- 
mercialized vice,  it  may  be  assumed  that  such  persons  cannot  be 
trusted  to  protect  others  from  exposure  to  infection,  and  it  is  the 
duty  of  the  health  officer  to  take  immediate  steps  to  isolate  them 
without  waiting  to  interview  either  the  physician  or  the  patient. 
In  all  other  cases  where  isolation  is  instituted,  the  health  officer 
will  wish  to  satisfy  himself  as  to  the  accuracy  of  the  diagnosis. 

4.  Before  deciding  to  isolate  a  person  infected  with  venereal 
disease,  the  health  officer  should  study  the  facts  in  the  case  to  de- 
termine the  best  method  of  handling  the  individual  case.  It  is  not 
desirable  to  place  the  expense  of  maintaining  and  treating 
such  persons  for  considerable  periods  upon  the  public  unless  such 
step  is  necessary  to  protect  the  public  health.  On  the  other  hand, 
it  is  highly  desirable  that  every  person  infected  with  venereal  dis- 
ease who  is  a  menace  to  the  public  health  while  at  liberty  should 
be  placed  in  isolation. 

5.  The  Health  Officer  should  examine  promptly  and  thoroughly 
by  both  clinical  and  laboratory  methods,  all  persons  referred  by 
peace  officers  as  suspected  of  having  venereal  disease,  and  take  ap- 
propriate action  to  protect  the  public  health  in  all  cases  found 
to  be  infected. 

6.  Information  concerning  the  presence  of  venereal  disease 
may  often  reach  the  health  officer  through  channels  other  than 
official.  Private  citizens  or  representatives  of  certain  societies  or 
civic  organizations  may  report  cases,  and  it  is  the  duty  of  the 
health  officer  to  carefully  investigate  all  cases  so  reported.  Should 
the  investigation  furnish  evidence  of  infection  that  seems  sufficient, 
the  health  officer  should  either  persuade  the  suspected  persons  to 
submit  to  an  examination  or  secure  a  warrant  to  be  served  by  a 
peace  officer.  All  cases  should  be  dealt  with  in  a  manner  that  will 
best  safeguard  the  public  health. 

7.  When  there  is  reason  to  believe  that  a  person  is  a  menace 
to  the  public  health  and  such  person  does  not  voluntarily  submit 
to  detention,  examination,  isolation  or  treatment,  such  case  shall 


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be  handled  as  provided  for  in  Section  7,  of  Chapter  7829  of  the 
Laws  of  Florida. 

8.  When  it  shall  become  necessary  that  a  person  be  placed  in 
isolation  for  venereal  disease,  after  apprehension  by  a  proper  officer, 
the  actual  transfer  to  place  of  isolation  should  be  done  by  said 
officer.  Such  infected  person  shall  then  remain  in  isolation  and 
under   treatment  until   released  as   non-infectious. 

9.  All  reports  of  venereal  diseases  are  required  to  be  confi- 
dential, and  all  administrative  measures  for  the  control  of  venereal 
diseases  should  be  carried  out  with  as  liftle  publicity  as  possible. 
Publicity  may  be  most  embarassing  to  innocent  members  of  the 
family. 

10.  It  is  sometimes  necessary  to  deal  with  young  girls  or  boys 
who  are  infected  with  venereal  diseases.  These  cases  are  usually 
such  as  need  training  in  the  Industrial  School  for  Girls  at  Ocala 
or  the  Industrial  School  for  Boys  at  Marianna.  It  is  deemed  ad- 
visable to  have  such  cases  sentenced  to  the  Industrial  School  by 
the  Judge  of  the  Probate  Court.  Or,  if  upon  a  proper  mental  test 
being  made  they  are  found  to  be  feeble-minded,  they  should  be 
sentenced  to  the  Florida  Farm  Colony  for  Feeble  Minded  and 
Epileptics  at  Gainesville. 


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Law        Rule 
page         page 
A 

Abatement  and  injunction  of  certain  places  or  buildings 81     • 

Abatement   of   nuisances 67 

Absorption  Beds  for  treatment  of  sewage  at  residences;  govern- 
ing the  specifications    for 103 

Acceptance    and    disbursement    of    money    received    from    the 

United   States  for  Venereal   Disease  Control 5 

Admission  to  schools  ;   Children's  certificates   for 86 

Adultery  and    fornication 69 

Adultery;  White  persons  and  negroes  living  in 72 

Annual    report   to    Governor 34 

Antirabic    treatment 141 

Antitoxin   distributing  stations 142 

Assistant  State  Health  Officer ;  Law  repealed • 8 

Attorney's  duty;   State  Vital  Statistics  law 51 

Authorizing  sale  of  property 11 

B 

Barber  shops ;  Sanitation  and  cleanliness  of 100 

Barber  shops  ;  Services  in,  prohibited  in  certain  diseases 164 

Barbers;     Occupation     prohibited     to     persons     infected     with 

venereal  diseases 164 

Bath  houses,   swimming  and  bathing  places 8 

Biologies   explained 141 

Birth  certificate ;   Certified  copy 50 

Birth   certificate ;    Form 46 

Births  to  be  registered 45 

Blanks    and    forms     furnished    to    physicians,    midwives    and 

undertakers 48 

Board  authorized  to  make  and  publish  Rule? 7 

Board  may  call  on  General  Government  for  aid  during  epidemics        33 

Board   Members    compensation 34 

Board  of  Embalmers 62 

Board  of  Health  appointed  by  Governor 20 

Board  to  elect  President  and  employ  Health  Officer 25 

Boarding  houses,   hotels   and   restaurants   inspected... 54 

Bond  and  oath  of  State  Health  Officer 25 

Bottlers   of   water ;    Suggestions   to 130 

Bottling  of  water ;  Regulating  the  manufacture,  inspection  and  95 

Breeding  of  mosquitoes;   Ordinance  to  prevent 137 

Burial  and   removal   permits 40 

Burial  permit ;    Form 44 

C 

Camps ;   Control  of  in  incorporated  towns 98 

Camps  ;  Control  of  sanitation  and  cleanliness  of 99 

Cancer  ;   Treatment   of  indigent  cases  of 95 

Carnal   intercourse   with  unmarried   female  idiot 70 

Carnal  intercourse  with  unmarried  female  under  eighteen  years        70 

Casket   dealer's   monthly   report _. 44 

Casket  dealers  must  register  with  local  Registrars 47 

Casket   dealer's  instructions 151 


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Cemetery    records 45 

Cemetery    sexton's    instructions 154 

Certified  copies  of  birth  and  death  certificates 50 

Chancroid.     See  Venereal  Diseases. 

Charitable    institutions ;    Superintendents    of,    to    make    reports 

of   venereal   disease 12 

Children ;  Certificate  for  admission  to  schools. 86 

Clandestine  marriage;  Enticing  away  unmarried  women    for..         71 

Cleanliness   of   barber   shops 100 

Cleanliness  of  camps  ;  Control  of 99 

Qeanliness  of  camps;  Control  of,  in  incorporated  towns 98 

Closets  or  privies  must  be  fly-proof 7 

Closets;    school. .  .i 20 

Code ;    Sanitary  Railway 106 

Common  drinking  cups  prohibited  in  public  places 99 

Common  towels  prohibited  in  public  places 100 

Communicable    disease    reportable 144 

Compensation  of  Board  Members  and   Health  Officer 34 

Compensation   of    Sanitary   Engineer 32 

Comptroller  to  audit  accounts  and  draw  warrant 35 

Construction  and  operation  of  public  swimming  pools 124 

Contributions  for  health  exhibits  may  be  accepted 30 

Control  of  sanitation  and  cleanliness   of  camps 99 

Control  of  sanitation  and  cleanliness  of  camps  in  incorporated 

towns     98 

Control  of  venereal  diseases 159 

Controlling  water  and  sewage  treatment  plants 97 

County   tuberculosis    hospitals 20 

Crippled   children's   hospitals 66 

Crippled   children   treated 94 

Current  expenses 35 

D 

Dairies  ;   Alanagement  of 104 

Death  certificate ;   Certified  copy  of 50 

Death   certificate ;   Form   of 41 

Death  certificate  to  be  filed  by  undertaker 43 

Death  occurring  without  medical  attendance 42 

Deaths   to   be   registered 43 

Decency  and  morality  ;   Offences  against 69 

Defining    periods    of    isolation 84 

Definition   of   isolation 84 

Definition  of  sewage 59 

Definition  of  Venereal  diseases 11 

Dependent  children  to  receive  support 15 

Deputy   Registrars 40 

Designating  headquarters  of  the  State  Board  of  Health 10 

Destroying  or  defacing  warning  cards 83 

Dining  and  buffet  cars  to  be  screened 56 

Diphtheria  antitoxin 141 

Diphtheria  ;    Instructions    concerning 90 

Diphtheria ;    Isolation    of • .  ■  85 

Disbursement   of   money   received   from   the  United    States    for 

Venereal    Disease    Control 5 

Discharging  rubbish,  filth,  etc.,  in  lakes  and  rivers 73 

Discharging  sewage  in  underground  waters 73 

Disease  ;   Disseminating  rumors  of 75 


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Diseased    animals 80 

Diseases    to    be    reported 144 

Diseases  to  be  reported  by  telegram 25 

Diseases,  Venereal,  to  be  reported 12 

Disinfectants    and   disinfection 123 

Disinfection  of  premises 85 

Disinterment   of   dead   bodies 151 

Disobeying   quarantine    regulations 75 

Dispensaries,   Superintendents   of,   to   report  cases   of   venereal 

disease    12 

Disposal  of  human  excreta;  Ordinance  providing  for 132 

Disseminating   rumors   of   disease 75 

Dissemination  of  information  concerning  communicable  disease        29 

Distributing   Stations  ;    Antitoxin 142 

Districts  established  to  file  birth  and  death  certificates 39 

Distribution    of    biologies 141 

Docks,  landings  and  wharves  protected 87 

Doctors   to   file  birth   certificates 45 

Doctors   to   report    certain    diseases 144 

Doctors  to   report   venereal   diseases 12 

Doctors  to  give  instructions   in  venereal   disease  cases 159 

Donations  by  towns,  cities  or  counties  authorized  for  venereal 

disease    control 11   ■ 

Drinking  cups,  common,  prohibited  in  public  places 99. 

Drugs  administered  under  certain  regulations 61 

Drugs ;  Sale  of  habit  forming 60 

Duties  of  Local  Registrar : 49 

Duty  of   Attorneys  ;    Vital   statistics  law 51 

Duty  of  Health  Officer  when  morbidity  is  reported 52 

E 

Embalmer's    license 64- 

Embalmer's    license    revoked 65 

Embalming   without    complying   with    the    law 74 

Engineer ;    Sanitary,    employed 31 

Enticing  away  for  prostitution 71 

Enticing  away  unmarried  women  for  clandestine  marriage. ...  71 
Enticing  female  to  come  into  State  or  to  leave  her  home  for 

immoral   purposes 71 

Establishing  plant  for  distribution  of  hog  cholera  serum 36 

Examination  and   inspection   for  venereal   disease 12 

Exhibit  expenses  to  be  paid  from  State  Board  of  Health  funds  30 

Exhibits   in   railway  car   authorized 29 

Expenses   certified   by    President 34 

F 

Fees  of  Local  Registrar 50 

Fixing  residence  of  State  Health  Officer 10 

Follow-up  system  of  cases  of  venereal  disease 160 

Food  exposed  for  sale  to  be  screened 56 

Foods  and  drinks  for  sale ;  Ordinance  regulating 135 

Foods,    drugs    or    drinks ;    Prohibiting    persons    infected    with 
venereal    disease     from    preparing,    handling,     serving    or 

dispensing    165 

Form  of  birth   certificate 46 

Form  of  burial  permit 44 

Form  of  death  certificate 41 


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page         page 

Forms,   blank,    for   release    from    isolation,   venereally   infected 

persons     162 

Fornication    and    adultery 70 

G 

Garbage  and  Refuse,  care  of,  receptacles ;  Ordinance  governing  139 

Glanders  and  other  contagious  diseases  in  animals 79 

Gonorrhea.     See  Venereal  Diseases. 

Governing  construction  and  operation  of  public  swimming  pools  124 

Governing  specifications    for  septic   tanks   and   absorption  beds 

for  treatment  of  sewage  at  residences 103 

Governing  the   preparation,   sale   and   vending   of    foods;    Pro- 
viding penalty 97 

Governing  the  production  and  handling  of  milk  and  management 

ci   dairies:    Providing   for  enforcement 104 

Governing  transportation  of  dead  bodies 149 

Governing  venereal  disease   control 159 

Governor  may  convene   Board 24 

Governor  to  appoint  Board  of  Health 24 

Governor  to  furnish  means  of  enforcing  quarantine 27 

H 

Habit    forming    drugs 60 

Headquarters,   State   Board   of   Health 10 

Health  and  Quarantine  laws 74 

Health  Officer  employed  by  Board 25 

Health,  State  Board  of,  authorized  to  make  and  publish  Rules  7 

Hog   cholera   serum    for   distribution 36 

Hogs,  keeping  in  pens 79 

Hospital    for    crippled    children 66 

Hospitals  and  alms  houses  to  keep  records 47 

Hospitals,    Superintendents    of,    to    make    reports    of    cases    of 

venereal    disease 12 

Hospitals  ;    Tuberculosis 20 

Hotels,   restaurants  and  boarding  houses  inspected 54 

Hotels,   restaurants,    etc.;    Providing   for   sanitation    of 96 

I 

Indigent   crippled   children's   hospital 66 

Information  and  Instructions  to  be  given  patients  infected  with 

venereal    diseases 159 

Inspection  and  botthng  of  water;  regulating  the  manufacture..  95 

Inspection  of  hotels,   restaurants   and  boarding  houses 54 

Inspection  of  school  children 36 

Instructions  and  Information  to  be  given  patients  infected  with 

venereal    diseases 159 

Instructions   for  Local  Registrars,  physicians,  undertakers,  cas- 
ket dealers  and  midwives 151 

Instructions  on  biologies 141 

Instructions    on    reporting   communicable    diseases 144 

Instructions;    Reports    of    notifiable    diseases 149 

Instructions ;    Venereal    disease    control. 165 

Investigation  of   sanitary   conditions   of   cities 57 

Investigation;  Quarantine  duties  of  President  and  Health  Officer        26 
Investigations  of  reported  cases  of  venereal  disease;    Duty  of 

health  officers  to  make ■■ 12 

Isolating    venereal    disease 12  161 

Isolation  defined 84 


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Keepers  of  burial  places 45 

Kitchens  to  be  screened 56 

L 

Leprosy ;  Isolation  of 85 

Lewd   and   lascivious   behavior 69 

License    to    embalmers , 64 

Local  Registrar  to  enforce  law 51 

Local    Registrar's    duties 49 

Local  Registrar's   fees 50 

Local  Registrar's  instructions ' 151 

Local  Registrar's  term  of  office  and  appointment 39 

M 

Managers    of    hospitals,    dispensaries,    or    charitable    or    penal 

institutions  to  make  reports  of  cases  of  venereal  disease. ...         12 
Manufacture,  importation  and  bottling  of  water;  Regulating...  95 
Markets,  stores,  hotels,  restaurants,  etc. ;  Providing  for  sanita- 
tion of 96 

Medical  certificate  of  death 42 

Medical  inspection  of  school  children 36 

Meetings  may  be  called  by  President 33 

Members  of  Embalming  Board 63 

Members  of  Board  of  Health  appointed  by  Governor 20 

Midwives'  instructions 151 

Midwives  to  file  birth  certificates 45 

Midwives  must  register  with  Local  Registrar 47 

Milk;   The  handling  of 104 

Money   received   from  the  United   States   for  venereal   disease 

control    5 

Monthly  current   expenses   authorized 35 

Morality  and  decency ;  Offences  against 69 

Morbidity    reports 52  144 

Morbidity  reports  required 12  144 

Mosquitoes ;  Ordinance  to  prevent  breeding  of 137 

Mothers,  poor,   having   dependent   children 15 

Muzzling   86 

N 

Negro  and  white  occupying  same  room 72 

Notifiable  diseases 12  144 

Nuisance ;   Declaring  open  privies  to  be 132 

Nuisances ;    Penalties 77 

Nuisance ;    Sanitary,    defined 57 

Nuisances  ;  Abatement  of 67 

Nuisances;    Abatement    and    injunction    of    certain    places    or 

buildings    81 

Nuisances ;   Certain  acts  declared  to  be 79 

O 

Oath  and  bond  of  State  Health  Officer 34 

Obstructing    officer 75 

Occupations  prohibited  to  persons  infected  with  venereal  disease  164-165 

O'ffences  against  morality  and  decency 69 

Officer    obstructed 75 

Open  privies ;  Declaring  same  to  be  nuisance 132 


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page 


Operation  of  public  swimming  pools;   Governing  the  construc- 
tion   and 124 

Operators ;    Sewage   plants 97 

Orthopedic    service 94 


Penal  institutions,  Superintendents  of,  to  make  report  of  cases 

of  venereal  disease 12 

Penalty   for   disobeying   quarantine   regulations 75 

Penalty  for  embalming  without  complying  with  the  law 74 

Penalty  for  not  keeping  water  tanks  and  mains  clean 76 

Penalty  for  not  reporting  yellow  fever,  smallpox  and  cholera..         74 

Penalty  for  nuisances 11 

Penalty  for  violating  Rule  governing  the  preparation,  sale  and 

vending    of    foods 97 

Penalty  for  violating  vital  statistics  Law 76 

Penalty  for  violation  of  Law  for  control  of  venereal  disease..         12 

Penalty  for  violation  of  State  Board  of  Health  Rules 75 

Penalty  for  violation  of  venereal  disease  Rules 165 

Penalty  if  water  closets  are  not  kept  clean 78 

Permit   for   burial  or  removal • 4 

Permit  for  release  from  isolation;  Venereal  disease  control....  162 

Permit    to    discharge    sewage 59 

Permit  to  ship  dead  bodies 149 

Permit  to  travel  or  change  residence;  Venereal  disease  control. .  164 

Physicians  to  assume  control  in  certain  cases 53 

Physicians'   instructions   on   vital    statistics   Law 151 

Physicians  must  register  with  Local  Registrar 47 

Physicians  required  to  file  birth  certificates 45 

Physicians  required  to  report  notifiable  diseases 12  144 

Physicians   required  to  report  venereal   diseases 12  159 

Physicians   required   to   wire   certain    reports 25 

Place   of   residence ;    State   Health   Officer 10 

Pools,  swimming;  Sanitation,  healthfulness,  etc.  of 8 

Poor  mothers  or  women  having  dependent  children 15 

Powers   of    State  Board _ 29 

Preparation,  sale  and  vending  of  foods;  Providing  penalty....  97 

President    elected   by    Board 25 

President  may  call  meetings 33 

Privies  or  surface  closets  must  be  fly  proof _. ._ 7 

Production  and  handling  of  milk;  Management  of  dairies,  etc..  104 

Prohibited;    Common   drinking  cups  in  public  places 99 

Prohibited ;   Common  towels  in  public  places 100 

Prohibited ;  Serving,  handling  or  preparing  of  foods,  drugs  of 

drinks   by   venereally   infected   persons 165 

Prostitution ;    Enticing    away    for 71 

Prostitution    to    be    repressed 161 

Protection  of  wharves,   docks   and  landings . . ._ 87 

Public  bath  houses,  swimming  pools  and  bathing  places 8 

Public    buildings ;    Sanitation    of 102 

Q 

Quarantine    and    health    Laws 74 

Quarantine ;  Duties  of  President  and  Health  Officer 26 

Quarantine  may  be  modified  by  Board 33 

Quarantine   of    railways   and   vessels 27 


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R 

Rabid   animals   to   be   confined , 26 

Rabies ;   Laboratory   examination 87 

Railway  companies  may  transport  cars  free 30 

Railway    Sanitary    Code 106 

Recommending  types  of  sewage  disposal 128 

Refuse ;  Care  of  and  receptacles  for 139 

Regular  meeting  of  Board   designated 24 

Regulating  manufacture,  importation  and  bottling  of  waters...  95 

Removal  and  burial  permits , 40 

Reportable    diseases 12  144 

Reporting    venereal    diseases 12  159 

Reports  of  cases  of  venereal  disease  to  be  made  by  Superintend- 
ents or  Managers  of  hospitals,  dispensaries,  and  charitable 

and  penal,   institutions 12 

Requiring  sewer  connections 140 

Residence  State  Health  Officer  designated 10 

Restaurants,  etc. ;   Providing   for   sanitation   of 96 

Restaurants,  hotels  and  boarding  houses   inspected 54 

Revocation   of   embalmers   license 65 

S 

Sale  and  vending  of  foods ;   Providing  penalty 97 

Sale  of  habit   forming  drugs 60 

Sanitary  condition  of  cities  to  be  investigated 57 

Sanitary.  Enginer   to   be    employed 31 

Sanitary    Engineer's    compensation 32 

Sanitary  inspection  of  hotels,  restaurants  and  boarding  houses        54 

Sanitary    nuisance    defined 57 

Sanitary  railway  code 106 

Sanitation    and    cleanliness    of    barber    shops 100 

Sanitation  and  cleanliness  of  camps ;   Control  of 99 

Sanitation  and  cleanliness  of  camps;  Control  of,  in  incorporated 

towns 98 

Sanitation  of  markets,  stores,  hotels,  restaurants,  etc 96 

Sanitation   of  public  buildings 102 

Sanitation   of  public  places 30 

Sanitation  of  schools ;  Air  space  and  ventilation 101 

Sanatorium ;    Tuberculosis 53 

Scarlet    Fever ;    Instructions    concerning 91 

School  children ;    Medical  inspection  of 36 

School   closets 20 

Schools,  Colleges  or  Universities ;  Preventing  persons  infected 
with  venereal  diseases,  teaching,  attending  or  being  em- 
ployed in 164 

School  teachers  required  to  report  notifiable  diseases 146 

Schools ;  Air  space,  sanitation  and  ventilation  of 101 

Septic  tanks  and  absorption  beds   for  treatment  of   sewage   at 

residences ;  Governing  specifications  for 103 

Serum  Antimeningococcus 141 

Service ;    Orthopedic 94 

Sewage  disposal ;  Recommending  types   of 128 

Sewage  plant  operators 97 

Sewage   treatment   plants ;    Controlling 97 

Sewer   connections  ;    Law    requiring 140 

Sewage    defined 59 

Sewage   discharged   in   underground   waters 73 


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Sextons  to   register  with  Local   Registrars 47 

Sextons'    instructions 

Sexual  intercourse  prohibited;   Persons  venereally  infected....         11 

Slaughter    houses 80 

Smallpox  instructions 

Specifications    for   septic  tanks   and   absorption   beds   for   treat- 
ment of  sewage   at   residences 

Specifications    for    warning   cards 

Specimens  for  laboratory ;  Instructions  on 

State  Board  authorized  to  make  and  publish  Rules 7 

State    Board    of    Embalmersi 62 

State  Board  of  Health  headquarters 10 

State  Health  Officer  employed  by  Board 25 

State  Health  Officer  to  act  as  Secretary. 33 

State  Health  Officer  to  condemn  certain  property 32 

State  Health  Officer  to  control  quarantine 27 

State    Health    Officer's    compensation , 34j 

State  Health  Officer's  oath  and  bond 34 

Still  births  to  be   registered 41 

Stores,  hotels,  restaurants,  etc.;  Providing  for  sanitation  of.... 

Sub-registrars    40 

Suggestions  to  bottlers  of  water 

Superintendents  of  hospitals,  dispensaries,  or  charitable  or  penal 

institutions  to  make  reports  of  cases  of  venereal  disease..         12 

Support   of   dependent   children 15 

Surface  closets  or  privies  must  be  fly-proof 7 

Surface  closets;   Violation   of   Regulations 79 

Supressing    venereal    diseases 11 

Swimming  pools ;    Construction  and   operation   of 

Swimming  pools ;  Sanitation,  healthfulness,  etc.  of 8 

Syphilis.    See  Venereal  Diseases. 

T 

Tax   levied   for   Board ;   One-half   mill 35 

Teachers  infected  with  Communicable  disease 

Teachers  required  to  report  notifiable  disease 

Telegraphic    reports    of    certain    diseases 25 

Terms  of  office  for  Members  of  Board  and  State  Health  Officer        25 

Time  of  regular  meeting  of  State  Board  of  Health 24 

Towels  prohibited  in  public  places 

Towns  and  cities  to  be  visited  by  State  Health  Officer 

Trachoma  excluded  from  schools 

Transportation  of  dead  bodies 

Traveling  of  venereally  infected  persons   restricted 

Treatment  of  crippled  children 

Treatment  of  indigent  cancer  cases 

Treatment  of  sewage  at  residences 

Treatment  of  venereal  disease  provided   for 12 

Tuberculosis    hospital 20 

Tuberculosis  ;  Instructions  concerning 

Tuberculosis    sanatorium 53 

Types  of  sewage  disposal ;  Recommending 

Typhoid ;    Preventative  treatment   for 

Typhoid    Fever ;    Instructions    concerning 


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103 

83 

143 


96 
130 


124 


85 
146 


100 

32 

86 

149 

165 

94 

95 

103 

161 

93 

128 

141 

91 


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Underground  waters  defined 58 

Undertaker  to  file  death  certificate 43 

Undertakers'    instructions 151 

Unmarried    women    enticed    away 71 


Vaccine    virus 141 

Vagrants     72 

Vending  of   foods ;   Providing  a  penalty 97 

Venereal    disease    control 159 

Venereal   diseases ;    Reporting 12  159 

Venereal  diseases  ;   Regulating  and  suppressing 11 

Ventilation  of   school   buildings 101 

Violations  after  sanitary  inspection  of  buildings 80 

Violation;  Failure  to  provide  school  buildings  with  closets....  82 

Violation;  Not  keeping  water  tanks  and  mains  clean 75 

Violation  of  Regulations  as  to  employment  bonds 81 

Violation  of  Regulations  as  to  surface  closets 79 

Violation  of  Regulations  as  to  screening  hotels 81 

Violation  of  Rules  made  by  State  Board  of  Health 75 

Violation  of  vital  statistics  Law 76 

Violation ;    Venereal    disease    Law 12 

Violation ;    Venereal    disease    Rules 165 

Vital    statistics    Law 38 

Vital   statistics    Law ;    Penalties 76 

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Warning    cards 83 

Water  and  sewage  treatment  plants  :   Controlling 97 

Water ;   Bottlers  of _  130 

Water  closets ;    Penalty   if   not   kept   clean 78 

Water;  Regulating  the  manufacture,  importation  and  bottling  of  95 

Waters ;    Underground,    defined '     58 

Wharves,  docks  and  landings  protected 87 

Women ;    Unmarried,    enticed    away 71 


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